You may not realize it but your take on hot button, political and cultural issues is shaped by 2 theological realities.
The Creator/creature distinction and a theology of the body.
Embodiment
Embodied holiness means recognizing the body’s value and importance in the Christian faith. To embody holiness, Christians strive to think about the treat their bodies to the glory of God.
A theology of the body helps Christians understand that caring for physical health is not about perfection or control, but faithful stewardship. While the MAHA movement highlights important health concerns, Scripture alone explains why the body matters. When Christians think rightly about the body, health becomes an expression of obedience rather than obsession.
For these reasons and more, the church needs to know how the Bible addresses the body. Christians must affirm that the body is valuable and that God has ultimate authority over it. By standing on a biblical understanding of the body, we can build a theology of the body from Scripture. Equipped with this understanding, we can confidently address some of the most pressing issues of our day.
Christians struggling with anxiety can praise God for these creational interventions and proclaim them to others. Rather than overlooking our body’s role, we glorify God for his masterful design and embrace creational interventions as a means of enhancing human flourishing through our mind-body connection.
May is mental health awareness month. As someone who went through a period of depression over 10 years ago, I can appreciate when mental health issues get attention. I think that attention is especially important for believers, as depression is […]
Have you gotten the message yet? The message that your material body doesn’t actually matter. This is the underlying message of the transgender movement. Instead, the movement claims all that actually matters is whatever your immaterial mind wants to believe […]
Last week, I discussed the reality of ministry burnout. If you missed that previous post on what burnout is and its physical ramifications, be sure to read that one first. In this post, I’ll cover factors that lead to burnout […]
Like many of my posts, this one comes from personal experience too, my own combined with years of being in church leadership and seminary. I’m also writing on this topic because burnout and a forsaken body go hand in hand. […]
New year. New you. Out with the old. In with the new. Peace out, 2020. Hey there, 2021! However you say it, the new year is here. And with it comes new intentions, plans, resolutions. Around 75 million Americans will […]
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