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In God’s Image: A Journey Towards Wholeness in Sexuality, Identity and Relationships

Course offered through Focus on the Family

In this series, we explore life’s essential questions: What does it mean to be human? What role does our identity play in our relationships, values, and healing? This six-session series guides you through topics that reveal the profound ways our identity as humans, made in God’s image, shapes our experiences and understanding of ourselves and others. Each session tackles a key area: from understanding our inherent value and relationships to navigating temptation and finding healing.
In Gods Image Series. A journey toward wholeness in sexuality identity and relationships
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In God's Image Series

Bryan Pue, Bonnie Pue, The Union Movement

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Through candid discussion and biblical insight, you’ll gain clarity and practical guidance on embracing your unique design, seeing sexuality as God intended, and recognizing your strengths as male or female. This journey encourages you to reflect on the impact of community, whether through singleness or marriage, and to discover the path toward freedom from shame.

To get the most out of this series, we encourage you to follow along with the exercises in the accompanying workbook. These reflections and action steps provide practical tools to deepen your understanding and make the lessons personal, allowing you to apply what you’ve learned in meaningful ways. Let this series be a step toward growth, healing, and deeper connection with God and others.

Session One

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

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What does it mean to be human? If you’re wrestling with this question, we have good news for you: you are made in God’s image. In this first session, we learned that phrase “Imago Dei” means “Image of God” and it differentiates humans from all other aspects of creation. As an image bearer, nothing about you is an accident.

Session Two

The Context For Sex

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Advertising and entertainment often glorify sex as the highest human experience. Some people rarely feel free to ask real questions that would equip them with real wisdom. And for those of us who have experienced deep pain, confusion or regret in the realm of sexuality, we often keep things private, which in turn produces shame around something God designed to be anything but shameful. Here’s the good news: nothing, nothing, we do or experience can separate us from God’s perfect love.

Session Three

Created In His Image: Male and Female

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“Is it a boy or a girl?” This is usually the first question people ask when a baby has been born – a declaration that we are either a son or a daughter. The masculine and the feminine each demonstrate a unique aspect of the nature of our Creator, and God blessed his creation as good. But as the book of Genesis shows, sin tainted the perfect balance and beauty of God’s creation.

Session Four

Made For Each Other: Singleness, Marriage and Community

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As followers of Christ, we were made to have a relationship with God, but we were made to have relationships with each other, too. Feelings of loneliness are not a defect; rather, it’s an indication that we were designed for community. But because of the loss of community-based ways of living, a lot of unsustainable weight has been placed onto potential romantic relationships. It’s important to note, though, that Scripture does not treat marriage or singleness as more holy than the other.

Session Five

Have You Ever Been Tempted?

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In this video, Bryan reminds us of the three ways humans face temptation: the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). When we follow the pattern of how Jesus overcame temptation, we experience the same overcoming power in our lives. How amazing that we can live in the full abundant life that he purchased for us!

Session Six

The Path Towards Healing

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Whether from decisions we made or things done to us, we all have experiences in our lives that caused some level of guilt and shame. While guilt (“I did something bad”) can be a helpful tool that nudges us to make amends, confess and repent, shame (“I am bad”) is an unhelpful and damaging self-narrative that often leads to isolation and pain. But God never intended us to live under the suffocating weight of shame. He desires us to experience freedom through him.