Greg and I are convinced of the truth of this Biblical view of sex. Not only have we observed it in His Word, we have also seen and experienced it in the healing He’s worked in our lives and our relationship. Greg and I experienced renewal when God brought these pieces together. We experienced God-given and God-honoring renewal of our minds, and our sexual relationship.
This does not mean that in the act of sex we enter into a state of “holy worship” which generates a climate that is pious and focused on God to the exclusion of one another. Quite the contrary! We may not think of this picture much at all during our times of intimacy together. But these truths had a practical impact on each of us, and our relationship. Living out these truths day by day has affected our physical relationship by creating an environment in which we are free and able to focus on one another like never before. I
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The “spiritual connection” being that of being at peace with one another, not strained by contentions but rather in compassion to seek understanding and unity. Greg began to desire that our physical union would be characterized by a spiritual unity that came from understanding and ‘being there’ for one another in a much greater sense of the word.
Neither of us has mastered that understanding of the opposite sex. But understanding how vastly different we are, while at the same time understanding how equally needy we are, keeps us motivated to pursue our relationship by setting aside our own perspective in order to understand the other. For Greg and me, a part of being able to live out this growing understanding came to us by redefining sin, righteousness, life, and death to be consistent with our growing understanding of God and His