Pure: Why the Bible's Plan for Sexuality Isn't Outdated, Irrelevant, or Oppressive

Pure: Why the Bible's Plan for Sexuality Isn't Outdated, Irrelevant, or OppressiveFew things bring more immediate scrutiny and impassioned angst among young adult Christians today than hearing the words "purity culture." Serious flaws from purity culture deserve to be scrutinized, especially given its lasting negative effects on some raised in the movement. Many Christians today reject the movementand all that it stood forwholesale. However, we can't ignore the clear sexual ethics of the Bible. Pure dives into the big picture of

Few things bring more immediate scrutiny and impassioned angst among young adult Christians today than hearing the words "purity culture." Serious flaws from purity culture deserve to be scrutinized, especially given its lasting negative effects on some raised in the movement. Many Christians today reject the movement—and all that it stood for—wholesale. However, we can't ignore the clear sexual ethics of the Bible. Pure dives into the big picture of God's design for men and women regarding sexuality, and seeks to reclaim one of the clearest teaching in the scriptures: the call to sexual purity. While purity culture gets the truth right, the approach and gospel elements it espouses are often wrong. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water, but rather celebrate God's great design for marriage and the loving boundaries he has put in place for our joy, protection, and flourishing.

Publisher: Moody
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780802423085

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Dean Inserra is a graduate of Liberty University and holds a M.A. in Theological Studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the founding pastor of City Church. Dean is passionate about reaching the city of Tallahassee with the Gospel, to

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"Contemporary evangelicalism is obsessed with social justice and loving one's neighbor. But when it comes to the topic that is literally destroying people's lives inside and outside the church, sexuality, so few are willing to speak up. Dean Inserra's Pure is. So few are as willing to be as clear, bold, and unapologetic about the Bible's witness on sexuality as Dean, and that's chiefly because Dean believes biblical sexuality is for our good, not for our harm or for repressing our desires. If the church is to love its neighbor and seek society's welfare, there are few more practical ways to do so than to the tell the truth about God's design for sexuality." ANDREW T. WALKER, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; fellow, The Ethics and Public Policy Center