Can Christians receive massages?<\/p>\n\t
It would depend on the purpose of the massage. There would be nothing wrong with a massage to loosen sore muscles, but a massage that arouses sexual feelings would be wrong. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God<\/em>” (I Thessalonians 4:3-5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Can Christians receive massages? Answer: It would depend on the purpose of the massage. There would be nothing wrong with a massage to loosen sore muscles, but a massage that arouses sexual feelings would be wrong. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[1341,596],"class_list":["post-35368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-massages","tag-sensuality"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17728,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-got-a-massage-and-received-a-happy-ending-how-do-i-get-rid-of-this-guilt-that-i-feel\/","url_meta":{"origin":35368,"position":0},"title":"I got a massage and received a happy ending. 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