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SINGLENESS AND MARRIAGE

Besides salvation,
the decision to
stay single or get
married is one of
the most
significant
decisions you will
make in your lifetime. This decision
will impact every day of the rest of Photo by Zachary Nelson on Unsplash
your life! It will specifically affect
your ability to participate in planting up settling for someone who is ?just
a church in an unreached people/ not into missions.? Missions, and
language group. the goal of making God?s name
great among the nations, ends up
Either decision, remaining single or
getting married, can be a godly and dying a quiet death whenever
good one. Marriage someone settles for
is highly honored in that type of spouse.
Scripture. It is Remember? if an
designed to reflect all-powerful God
to the world God?s wants you to be
sacrificial love for married, he will bring
His bride, the it to pass in His good
church. Similarly, timing.
singleness is also Here is a word just
highly honored in for the young men: It
t
Scripture, and single doesn? take much
people can reflect research to figure
the gospel in a way out there is nearly a
that married people 5-to-1 ratio of single
cannot. They can women to single
better focus their men going into
attention, energy, missions. Young
and devotion on men, if God has
loving and serving called you to
Christ. To put it missions, be brave!
bluntly, single people tend to Don? let the cares of this world,
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accomplish more, and more quickly lesser ambitions, even good things
than married couples do. Their (jobs, positions, a good woman who
attentions are not divided the way a wants a ?good life?), keep you from
married person?s are. the best things. When your days are
If God has laid on your heart to nearing their end, what a comfort it
pursue missions, be wise! Too will be knowing you risked it all for
many young men and women end the King? while you were still
young.