Sexuality Is a Glorious Gift of God

“Sexuality, looked at dispassionately, is neither good nor evil – it is a fact of nature and a force of immeasurable power. But looking at it as Christians we have felt impelled to state without reservation that it is a glorious gift of God. Throughout the whole of living nature it makes possible an endless and fascinating variety of creatures, a lavishness, a beauty of form and colour surpassing all that could be imagined as necessary to survival.

But, like every gift of God, it can be misused, and when it is misused the degradation to which men and women can be lowered reflects the heights to which they might be raised by its proper enjoyment.”

— Friends Home Service Committee, 1963
Committee of London Yearly Meeting

Today’s Invitation

Let right use of your sexuality raise you up.

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  • Friends' Home Mission Committee was set up by London Yearly Meeting in 1882, to promote the growth of home mission work in the Yearly Meeting. It was decided in 1893 that this committee should be appointed by representatives serving each of the Quarterly Meetings, each of whom would serve for three years. The work of this committee widened, and the committee's name was therefore changed to Friends' Home Mission and Extension Committee in 1906 and then Friends Home Service Committee in 1927. In 1998, the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting were reorganized, with most of the work of Quaker Home Service being taken on by a new central committee called Quaker Life.

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