Statement on Marriage and Sexuality

At Scottsdale Bible Church, we welcome and extend God’s love to all people, affirming that all are created in His image and infinitely loved by Him. We invite everyone to seek and explore a relationship with Christ while developing relationships with others as part of our church community.

In all matters, we look to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God, believing it clearly communicates God’s design for life and behavior.

Regarding marriage and sexuality,

*WE AFFIRM that God created Adam and Eve, the first human beings, in his own image, equal before God as persons, and distinct as male and female.

WE AFFIRM that God has designed marriage to be a relational, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church.

WE AFFIRM that God’s revealed will for all people is chastity outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage.

WE AFFIRM that divinely ordained differences between male and female reflect God’s original creation design and are meant for human good and human flourishing.

WE AFFIRM that the differences between male and female reproductive structures are integral to God’s design for self-perception as male or female, and that self-perception as male or female is defined by God’s holy purposes as revealed in Scripture.

WE AFFIRM that people who experience sexual attraction for the same sex can live a rich and fruitful life pleasing to God through faith in Jesus Christ, as they, like all Christians, walk in purity of life.

WE AFFIRM that sin distorts sexual desires by directing them away from the marriage covenant and toward sexual immorality— a distortion that includes both heterosexual and homosexual immorality.

WE AFFIRM our call to speak lovingly to each other at all times, including when we speak to or about one another as male or female.

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