EROS

SOMETHING HAPPENED TO LOVE-EROS, PHYSICAL LOVE -WHEN MANKIND FELL. THE BEAUTY WAS MARRED. THE JOY WAS TINGED WITH SAD- NESS. EROS WAS DEFILED.

TODAY THE RESULTS ARE EVIDENT IN PREMARITAL SEX, EXTRAMARI- TAL SEX, MASTURBATION, HOMO- SEXUALITY AND VARIOUS FORMS OF TWISTED SEX. DR. JOHN WHITE SPEAKS WITH UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSION ABOUT EACH OF THESE SEXUAL SINS. HE CONCLUDES WITH A TELLING CHAPTER ON HOW LOCAL CHURCHES CAN BE COMMUNITIES FOR DEALING WITH SEXUAL SIN IN A CONTEXT OF LOVE AND FORGIVE- NESS.

JOHN WHITE, ALSO THE AUTHOR OF THE COST OF COMMITMENT AND THE FIGHT: A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, WAS A STAFF MEMBER WITH THE INTERNATION- AL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELI- CAL STUDENTS IN LATIN AMERICA. HE IS CURRENTLY A COUNSELOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSY- CHIATRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA.