Naked surrender

Christians are taught that the body belongs to God and was made for him to inhabit. Andy Comiskey argues that Jesus is not distant from our sexual lives, whatever we have done or had done to us. He insists that Christ can take a person who has been wounded or who has wounded others and restore them to wholeness, freedom and purity.

Comiskey writes from his own experience of long struggle with sexual brokenness and pain, and of coming through it as a new creation in Christ. He leads Desert Stream Ministries, where he counsels and teaches people of every age and circumstance toward sexual wholeness. Here he offers himself as a guide and fellow traveler, showing readers how fully Jesus loves them and how directly his grace speaks to their sexual identity.

He quotes his own conviction that God cares what happens in the body, since he designed the body and sexuality for holy ends and intends to bring humanity's bodies into his purposes. The book's message is that God cares for each reader personally, and that healing comes through Jesus and through the body of Christ. Readers are invited to bring their own bodies, which Comiskey believes can be redeemed, into this path toward wholeness and hope.