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Embodied Souls: A Theology Of The Body | WONDERFULLY MADE (Pt.1) | Filipe Santos

Embodied Souls: A Theology Of The Body | WONDERFULLY MADE (Pt.1) | Filipe Santos

📺 LIVE ONLINE SERVICES each Sunday at 8:30am | 10:00am | 11:30am PT ◾️ Over the last few years, we have seen significant cultural shifts around the topics of gender, sexuality, and the body. These changes have left many of us feeling insecure or confused about how to respond with the unconditional love of Jesus, but also with faithfulness to God's Word. ◾️ Our desire for this series is to build bridges, not walls. We want every person in the Bay Area to know their incredible worth, understand the beauty of their design, and step into their identity as a human being that was wonderfully made by a loving Creator. ◾️ Join us as we unite in our teaching series Wonderfully Made. As each of us is uniquely made, let’s together indulge in this series to bring clarity and beauty into a conversation that has often been creating distances instead of love among us. ✅ Check-in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll also receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin → ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps in your faith journey! https://echo.church/yes → 💌 If this message encourages you, SHARE IT with a friend! LIKE & subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. → 🙏🏽Need Prayer? TEXT our Prayer Line: (408) 716-1675 Thanks for joining us! ====================

Locations & Times

Echo.Church | North San Jose Campus

1180 Murphy Ave, San Jose, CA 95131, USA

Sunday 8:30 AM

Sunday 10:00 AM

Sunday 11:30 AM

Sunday 4:00 PM

Sunday 5:30 PM

📆 Wonderfully Made Topics 📆
▪️ 04/07 - Bodies
▪️ 04/14 - Sexuality
▪️ 04/21 - Desire, Longing, Singleness
▪️ 04/28 - Gender
▪️ 05/05 - Grace & Truth
💡 ANCIENT VIEWS OF THE BODY: "The Body Doesn't Matter"
🔸 Plato: "Only the immaterial matters; the body is a prison of endless trouble."
~ Devalue the Body ~
🔸 Gnostics: "Nothing physical matters."
~ Ignore the Body ~
🔸 Epicureans: "The body doesn't matter; it's just a vehicle for pleasure."
~ Indulge the Body ~
💡 MODERN VIEWS OF THE BODY: "The Body Is Everything"
🔸 Materialism: "The physical is the only thing that matters; the only thing that's real."
🔸 Scientism: "Trust only what can be measured, seen, or verified."
🔸 Hedonism: "Pleasure is the only thing that matters."
🔸 American Christians: "I am a spirit, I have a soul, I live in a body."
💡 The VISIBLE World Reveals The INVISIBLE World.
💡 Our PHYSICAL BODIES Reveal Spiritual Realities.
💫 YOUR BODY MATTERS TO GOD 💫
💡 Why Do Our Bodies Matter?
1. CREATION
🔸 The Bible Distinguishes HUMAN IDENTITY as IMAGE-BEARERS OF GOD.
|| “We can fail to live well as God’s image, but we never stop being God’s image. Because the essence of being God’s image is a claim about our identity rather than a capability or function, we cannot lose it.”
~Carmen Imes, Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters
📜 "God BLESSED them..." (Genesis 1:28 NRSV)
|| “The image of God is a declaration that God intended to create human persons to be the physical means through which he would manifest his own divine presence in the world.”
~Marc Cortez
🔸 What We Do With Our Bodies Matters To God.
|| “God forms the human (the ādām) from the humus of the soil and breathes into his body, animating him with the divine breath of life. This imagery reveals an important truth about our nature: we are both earth and breath, matter and spirit. We are physical creatures; our bodies are integral to who we are. [...] This is one of the foundational principles of a Christian anthropology: every human being is a unity of body and soul.”
~Abigail Favale,The Genesis of Gender
🔸 To Be HUMAN Is To Be A "UNITY OF BODY AND SOUL".
2. INCARNATION
3. RESURRECTIOIN
🔸 There's A Connection Between The SACRIFICES OF OUR EARTHLY BODIES And The REWARDS OF OUR HEAVENLY BODIES.
|| “Your body isn’t a temple; it’s a roller coaster. Just enjoy the ride.”
~Anthony Bourdain
🔸CREATION shows us that God made us as image bearers
🔸INCARNATION shows us that God cares about bodies
🔸RESURRECTION reminds us that what we do in this earthly body will echo into eternity.
💫 YOUR BODY MATTERS TO GOD 💫
💫 MY BODY MATTERS TO GOD 💫
❔ What do you sense God asking you to do with today's message?
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🎶 Worship Songs 🎶
Take You At Your Word - by Cody Carnes
Promises - by North Point Worship
Christ Be Magnified - by The Belonging Co

💝 Wonderfully Made 1: Why Your Body Matters To God | A Theology Of The Body 💝

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