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6 Weekly Sessions
Wednesdays, May 15 — June 19, 2024
2 to 3:30 p.m. ET
1 to 2:30 p.m. CT
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT
7 to 8:30 p.m. UK
$299
In the 21st-century West, the Christian sexual ethic looks like a major obstacle to faith in Jesus. For many today, the freedom to express sexual identity is believed to be a fundamental right. As a result, the Christian claim that sex only belongs in male-female marriage is seen not just as foolish but also as dangerous and hateful—similar to the evil of racism.
Even inside the church, some struggle to experience the goodness of Christian sexual ethics. When marriage and the biological family are viewed as the only real place to experience relational intimacy, singles fear that they face a lifetime of inevitable loneliness. And Christians who experience same-sex attraction feel like following Jesus means living without love.
At the same time, many churches are reeling from the progress of the trans movement in recent years. They don’t know how to offer a truly biblical understanding of what it means for human beings to be made male and female in the image of God, while also caring for church members who were born with disorders of sexual development and for those who struggle with gender dysphoria.
This cohort situates the Bible’s “no” to same-sex sexual relationships in the context of the Bible’s “yes” to love between believers, with the Bible’s greatest love-story of Jesus and his people at the heart of the message. It will help church leaders recover the biblical vision for marriage and singleness and move toward a church culture that enfolds all believers in a family of love. It will also help church leaders think biblically and pastorally about the challenges and opportunities presented by the trans movement.
This cohort has been tailored to equip pastors and those in full-time vocational ministry theologically, pastorally, and practically to lead their churches well concerning topics of marriage, gender, and sexuality.
Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of:
If English isn’t your first language or hearing impaired, we have been working to enhance your cohort experience by incorporating Zoom’s real-time translation (and/or closed captioning) into your cohort experience. Real-time cohort transcription is available in these languages with the touch of the “closed caption” button:
Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
* We are unable to offer refunds for The Keller Center cohorts
* Books will be mailed in late April 2024. There is no required reading for the cohort.
* All sessions will be recorded and available for streaming or download at your leisure in perpetuity and so if you can’t make it live or even for months the material is still readily available for you.
* Registration closes on May 2, 2024.
If you have any questions pertaining to signing up for your cohort, group rates, elder/preaching team rates, or church rates email [email protected].
In this opening session we will help participants understand and articulate the love story at the center of the Bible’s boundaries around sex, and to untangle Christian sexual ethics from the history of sin when it comes racial discrimination on the one hand and actual hatefulness toward people who identify as LGBT+ on the other.
In this session we will work through common arguments made in favor of same-sex marriage and how none of them holds water.
In this session we will explore how the Bible calls us to brotherly and sisterly love and how church leaders might both teach and also encourage this within their congregations in a way that is lifegiving for both single and married believers.
In this session we will explore the New Testament’s teaching on singleness and how it fits within a holistic understanding of the Bible’s sexual ethics and the promise of the resurrection.
In this session we will explore how the Bible’s teaching that God made humans male and female in his image and that we will be raised as sexed, embodied beings might help us minister to people who were born with a disorder of sexual development (or intersex condition), to believers who struggle with gender dysphoria, and to people who identify outside their biological sex.
In this session, we will think together about how to reach those outside the church who see Christian sexual ethics as a major barrier to considering Christ.
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In the 21st-century West, the Christian sexual ethic looks like a major obstacle to faith in Jesus. For many today, the freedom to express sexual identity is believed to be a fundamental right. As a result, the Christian claim that sex only belongs in male-female marriage is seen not just as foolish but also as dangerous and hateful—similar to the evil of racism.
Even inside the church, some struggle to experience the goodness of Christian sexual ethics. When marriage and the biological family are viewed as the only real place to experience relational intimacy, singles fear that they face a lifetime of inevitable loneliness. And Christians who experience same-sex attraction feel like following Jesus means living without love.
At the same time, many churches are reeling from the progress of the trans movement in recent years. They don’t know how to offer a truly biblical understanding of what it means for human beings to be made male and female in the image of God, while also caring for church members who were born with disorders of sexual development and for those who struggle with gender dysphoria.
This cohort situates the Bible’s “no” to same-sex sexual relationships in the context of the Bible’s “yes” to love between believers, with the Bible’s greatest love-story of Jesus and his people at the heart of the message. It will help church leaders recover the biblical vision for marriage and singleness and move toward a church culture that enfolds all believers in a family of love. It will also help church leaders think biblically and pastorally about the challenges and opportunities presented by the trans movement.
This cohort has been tailored to equip pastors and those in full-time vocational ministry theologically, pastorally, and practically to lead their churches well concerning topics of marriage, gender, and sexuality.
Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of:
If English isn’t your first language or hearing impaired, we have been working to enhance your cohort experience by incorporating Zoom’s real-time translation (and/or closed captioning) into your cohort experience. Real-time cohort transcription is available in these languages with the touch of the “closed caption” button:
Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
* We are unable to offer refunds for The Keller Center cohorts
* Books will be mailed in late April 2024. There is no required reading for the cohort.
* All sessions will be recorded and available for streaming or download at your leisure in perpetuity and so if you can’t make it live or even for months the material is still readily available for you.
* Registration closes on May 2, 2024.
If you have any questions pertaining to signing up for your cohort, group rates, elder/preaching team rates, or church rates email [email protected].
In this opening session we will help participants understand and articulate the love story at the center of the Bible’s boundaries around sex, and to untangle Christian sexual ethics from the history of sin when it comes racial discrimination on the one hand and actual hatefulness toward people who identify as LGBT+ on the other.
In this session we will work through common arguments made in favor of same-sex marriage and how none of them holds water.
In this session we will explore how the Bible calls us to brotherly and sisterly love and how church leaders might both teach and also encourage this within their congregations in a way that is lifegiving for both single and married believers.
In this session we will explore the New Testament’s teaching on singleness and how it fits within a holistic understanding of the Bible’s sexual ethics and the promise of the resurrection.
In this session we will explore how the Bible’s teaching that God made humans male and female in his image and that we will be raised as sexed, embodied beings might help us minister to people who were born with a disorder of sexual development (or intersex condition), to believers who struggle with gender dysphoria, and to people who identify outside their biological sex.
In this session, we will think together about how to reach those outside the church who see Christian sexual ethics as a major barrier to considering Christ.
6 Weekly Sessions
Wednesdays, May 15 — June 19, 2024
2 to 3:30 p.m. ET
1 to 2:30 p.m. CT
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT
7 to 8:30 p.m. UK
$299
