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Bible Studies on Marriage, Family and Gender

Through many hours of research and four trips to Africa, Carrie Miles has adapted her original Bible study guide, Male and Female in Christ, to an African context. Shortened to focus specifically on issues of marriage and family and including the relevant Biblical texts, this material is easily understood and has immediate impact.

The Bible presents us with a three-part story of human relationship with God and with each other. “Once upon a time,” this story reveals, human beings were created as male and female in the image of God to fulfill an ideal – a one flesh, naked and unashamed marriage that was the crowning act of creation. The second part of the story traces our rejection of the life of faith and the loss of God’s abundant provision for us. This fall from grace brought division among God’s creation, a striving for power over each other, and the loss of the fearless love for which God created us.

The final chapter of this story, however, finds us redeemed – brought back by Christ from the bondage of the fallen world into which we sold ourselves. This study guide explores that story, showing how redemption not only restores each one of us to wholeness with God, but also brings us back to the creation ideal of unity and equality with one another. Through it we become the New Man or New Woman, restored to New Life in Christ.