Topic this week - God's Love Story/ Authority of God in Scripture/ Shame & Forgiveness

I am so excited to share a brand-new training series for families launching in January 2025! Dr. Preston Sprinkle and Jason Soucinek creators of Christian Sexuality have developed a series for families to explore and engage what God has to say about sex, sexuality, and gender.

Session members spent four months at the beginning of 2024 walking through this series together and doing the hard work of ensuring that what we present to you has been examined both theologically and psychologically from a counseling perspective. Now we are ready to share this with our adults within CHPC. We realize this may stir a host of emotions and responses which is why we want to begin by sharing a series overview below followed by an introduction overview and Q&A session in January. We are grateful for your consideration!

Series Summary:

In our Family Ministries Focus training series on Christian Sexuality, you will explore God’s beautiful intent for sex, sexuality, and gender. We’ll discover that Jesus didn’t come to enslave us to a list of rules. He came to give us life and help us flourish as we align our sexual selves with the Creator’s plan.

Now more than ever, our children need a robust, honest, and theologically rich conversation about sex, sexuality, and gender. This is exactly what Christian Sexuality provides. The Church has always struggled to address questions related to gender and sexuality with truth and grace.

But that challenge has exponentially increased in today’s culture. Our children are growing up in a world different from anything we’ve seen before, and this difference compounds the challenge of helping them embrace the beauty of God’s intention for sexual expression.

Our children are constantly bombarded with messages about who they are (gender) and who they desire (sexuality). By the time they begin hearing from you or church about God’s vision for sex and gender, they’ve already been bathed in a pool of competing (and sometimes destructive) ideas.

How will the Church disciple through these challenges? It’s not enough to just quote Bible verses at our youth, or to give a one-off message on sexuality and gender. We need to show them how beautiful the Creator’s vision for human flourishing really is, so that they will not only believe it—but desire it!

Everyone, including our children, needs to hear the truth of what God says about sex, and the truth of what God says about grace. We wholeheartedly believe that both the truth and the grace of the gospel are essential in how we approach sex and sexuality, especially the LGBTQ conversations.

Please contact Nikki McKenna Director of Family Ministries with any questions.