He examines how preachers can prepare their churches, their hearts, and their sermons for the topic, and how these can all work together to build a healthier future for their congregations and the wider church body. Moreover, he provides appropriate wording to use in crafting sermons, along with corresponding Scripture texts. Sensitive Preaching to the Sexually Hurting by Sam Serio is a volume that all Christians, but especially pastors and teachers should read and refer to often. Serio examines the causes and consequences of the seven most difficult sexual issues of today.
Sam Serio posits a powerful and necessary middle ground: preaching that offers forgiveness, transformation, and restoration.Sensitive Preaching to the Sexually Hurting is a ready-to-use resource written from a preaching perspective.
Despite the pervasiveness of sexual wounds in the church, preachers tend to either ignore them and say nothing or abhor them without nuance and condemn. They may even fear being fired and losing their ministry altogether.The truth is that seminary curriculums rarely prepare preachers to talk about sex in their sermons. The church is filled with the sexually hurting that need the biblical guidance found in Gods word. Those who would speak out directly from the pulpit worry that they will be unwise or insensitive, whatever their intent to the contrary. What they don't know is what to say to them.
Church leaders know these broken people sit in their pews. Today's church has sadly failed to minister to men and women deeply affected by porn, abortion, rape, casual sex, a sexless marriage, same-sex attraction, or childhood sexual abuse.
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