Nudity Is The Point: Part 2 of 3

All Christians have the potential to be great counselors if we can master one great truth: A broken relationship with God is the diagnosis for every problem.

An healthy relationship with God leads us to:

1) Find satisfaction in God alone
2) Become secure with how we were uniquely designed
3) Feel fully accepted in every situation and season of life
4) Not feel ashamed when we mess up because God has credited Jesus Christ’s righteousness to those of us who have accepted it
5) Run toward God
6) Become naked spiritually – not covering up our attitudes or actions

A broken relationship with God leads us to:

1) Find satisfaction in people and things rather than God Himself
2) Become insecure with our physical and spiritual make up
3) Feel that we aren’t fully accepted exactly the way we are
4) Feel ashamed when we mess up because of our world’s judgmental attitude
5) Run from God
6) Cover up our attitudes and actions

This type of broken relationship with God will also isolate people from engaging in a healthy Christian community. Fears of judgment and rejection will keep us away from the bright light of an authentic, transparent, family-like community.

From my vantage point, looking at how one person interacts in a Christian community can tell me a lot about their relationship with God.

If a person is in a healthy unbroken relationship with God, spiritual nudity is something to be desired and embraced. If I see a student coming to a small group meeting, confessing their brokenness, taking off their mask, and exposing their true attitudes, I can tell that they have a lot of confidence in God’s character (that God will forgive them, accept them, and heal them through Jesus).

Recently, I did an online survey of the students I work with. I asked them why they weren’t currently coming to our fraternity and sorority community groups. A few students told me anonymously that they felt like they were insecure about their knowledge of the bible or that they were ashamed of their past and felt like they would be exposed and not accepted.

These answers confirmed my suspicion that these students were giving in to the same lie that Adam and Eve believed in the beginning – that running from God and covering themselves up would lead to safety. The truth, on the other hand, is that God wants all of us to run to him naked, knowing that He is waiting to aggressively forgive, love, and accept us. .

Nudity therefore is the point that God wants us to embrace.

In Part 3, we’ll look at some concrete examples in our society of how people reject spiritual nudity and why they do so.