Handle With Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry - Couverture rigide

Wilbert, Lore Ferguson

 
9781535962339: Handle With Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry
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ISBN 10 : 153596233X ISBN 13 : 9781535962339
Editeur : Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

Our culture is in a time when reports of inappropriate touch are commonplace. In the church, we're not doing much better. On one hand, we give side hugs or instate six-inch rules. On the other, we find out-almost daily-about sexual misconduct, affairs, and abuse inflicted within our own walls. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. We can't even talk about touching our own bodies without the underlying assumption that it must be sexual. There is simply no place in our culture-and in the church-where touch doesn't seem threatened or threatening. In the laws within the Old Testament, there is a form of one statement made 38 times: "Do not touch." Everything seems off-limits to the people of God. But a curious thing happens in the New Testament when Jesus comes into his ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcasts, the bleeding and the unclean. What could it mean for families, singles, marriages, churches, communities, and the world to have healthy, pure, faithful, ministering touch? Somewhere in the mess of our assumptions and fears about touch, there is something beautiful and good and God-given. As Jesus can show us, there is ministry in touching.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lore Ferguson Wilbert has lived all over the United States but will always be most at home in the Northeast. She holds a degree in English from Lee University. She has been published by Christianity Today, Fathom Magazine, LifeWay Leaders, LifeWay Voices, The Gospel Coalition, Revive Our Hearts, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and more, on spiritual formation, faith, culture, and theology in life. She also teaches writing and edits on the side. You can read more of her work at Sayable.net. She and her husband live with their Wheaten, their books, their gardens, and a stocked tea box at all times.

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Éditeur
Broadman & Holman Publishers
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
153596233X
ISBN 13 
9781535962339
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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