NEW TITLES FROM FRED STOEKER AND SHANNON ETHRIDGE
Loneliness. Wounds. Disconnection. How do these affect the single Christian who is committed to living a life of sexual integrity?
We need to know, as sexual purity is a battle we must engage and win because the stakes are enormously high spiritually. So many of America's churches are teeming with divorced singles who're clambering for answers amidst the rubble of their broken hearts and shattered dreams of marriage. Senses jolted, they've joined up with their widowed and never-married brothers as single sojourners in a couple's world.
They're passionately searching for answers to the same bleak questions, questions like these:
- "God couldn't possibly have meant what He said about sexual purity in the Bible, could He? Why would He create us to be sexual beings and then ask us to act asexual? It seems so unfair!"
- "I understand God's standards regarding sexual purity, but I still want some kind of sexual release. So what are my options?"
- "Does purity really make any difference in my day-to-day life? Does it really affect my intimacy with God?"
- "What do women really think of pure men? Can a romance even bloom without sex being involved?"
- "If I shut down my sexuality completely, can I be sure it'll turn on again?"
Men need the right answers if they're to move forward with God. We were created to stand in His light and to walk upright in His image as real men.
Of course, we men aren't alone on this journey. Our sisters are walking with us.
Thankfully, our partner Shannon Ethridge, author of Every Woman's Battle, will help single women do that with the Every Single Woman's Battle Workbook that she's created, which can be used side by side with the men's version in church singles groups.
What better way for everyone to get on the same page? Or, more accurately, the same pages, since we all need to line up and integrate our sexuality with the pages of the Bible as much as we should with other areas of our lives. We need to honor women in our sexuality, as Christ always did. We need to allow Christ to draw us near and heal the wounds that can trip us up in our commitment to purity. We need to arm ourselves with the attitudes of Christ toward sin:
Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the pagans choose to do-living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
1 Peter 4:1-4, NIV (with boldface added for emphasis)
While the books Every Man's Battle and Every Woman's Battle were written primarily to married men and women, these two new single workbooks are designed to deliver the information necessary to help our single brothers and sisters to apply the lessons of these books to their single lives, especially for those who are twenty-five years of age or older.
Along with the workbook section, Every Single Man's Batte Workbook also includes three new and complete book chapters just for single men, that haven't been published in any other book. These chapters provide important information for single men that helps alter and apply what they learned in the book Every Man's Battle for their own specific needs as singles.
The two workbooks are being released on August 16th, 2005, and may be purchased through a link to Bookschristian.com at either Fredstoeker.com and Shannonethridge.com.
We hope you are ready to learn to walk this way as you sojourn this single pathway with your brothers and sisters in Christ!