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Handle with care : how Jesus redeems the power of touch in life and ministry / Lore Ferguson Wilbert.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : B&H Publishing, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xi, 245 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 153596233X
  • 9781535962339
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- Using our hands to live -- Speaking the same (love) language -- Broken bloodlines -- Touch of self -- The loving life of singleness -- Opposites don't always attract -- True love doesn't wait to touch -- Subject and objects in marriage -- Let the little children come -- Remember, remember -- Afterword: A letter to those who have been abused -- Questions for reflection or conversation.
Summary: "Whether it's fearful side hugs on one side or sexual abuse on the other, both the culture and the church aren't doing very well with touch. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. Even the Bible seems to have endless rules about not touching things. There is simply no place where touch doesn't seem threatened or threatening. But a curious thing happens when Jesus comes into His ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcast, 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."-- Netgalley.com.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 152.182 W664 Available 33111009629524
Total holds: 0

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Whether it's fearful side hugs on one side or sexual abuse on the other, both the culture and the church aren't doing very well with touch. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. Even the Bible seems to have endless rules about not touching things. There is simply no place where touch doesn't seem threatened or threatening.

But a curious thing happens when Jesus comes into His ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcast, 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.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Whether it's fearful side hugs on one side or sexual abuse on the other, both the culture and the church aren't doing very well with touch. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. Even the Bible seems to have endless rules about not touching things. There is simply no place where touch doesn't seem threatened or threatening. But a curious thing happens when Jesus comes into His ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcast, 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."-- Netgalley.com.

Introduction -- Using our hands to live -- Speaking the same (love) language -- Broken bloodlines -- Touch of self -- The loving life of singleness -- Opposites don't always attract -- True love doesn't wait to touch -- Subject and objects in marriage -- Let the little children come -- Remember, remember -- Afterword: A letter to those who have been abused -- Questions for reflection or conversation.

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