WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT
BEING SINGLE
As an unmarried person, you have distinct opportunities to grow in your faith and to make a substantial contribution to the kingdom.
In fact, the season you’re in has the potential to be the most formative period of your life. How can you best honor God in this time? Many Christians wonder if they should move toward marriage or embrace the kind of single life the apostle Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 7.
In order to evaluate your situation,
ask yourself two questions:
GOING FURTHER
RESOURCES
- Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help it Happen by Candice Watters
Watters makes the case that a biblical marriage is an honorable pursuit; one that women can help nurture along. Her book helps women see how they can “live like they are planning to marry.”
- Boundless.org
Webzine that offers young adults encouragement to live abundantly as singles while seeking God’s best in either celibacy or marriage.
- Single, Dating, Engaged, Marry: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age by Ben Stuart
Stuart navigates the four critical seasons of relationships to help readers aim powerful desires toward divine purposes.
- A Guy’s/Girl’s Guide to Marrying Well
Boundless.org has put together short, practical guides for singles to help them become proactive about whether, how and who to marry. (Available as a free download at www.boundless.org/guys or boundless.org/girls)