I Know Someone Who Struggles With Being Single
June 2–3
I Know Someone Who Struggles With Being Single
Series: I Know Someone Who…
Speaker: Brian T. Anderson
- Introduction
- Questions some single people ask
- “Is it wrong for me to want to be married so badly?”
- “If I try to be content with my singleness, am I “jinxing” myself from ever getting married?”
- “How do I accept my life as a single person?”
- I Cor. 11:1 (NLT) And you should follow my example, just as I follow Christ’s.
- Heb. 4:15 (NAS) For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
- Luke 8:1-3 (NLT) 1Not long afterward Jesus began a tour of the nearby cities and villages to announce the Good News concerning the Kingdom of God. He took his twelve disciples with him,2along with some women he had healed and from whom he had cast out evil spirits. Among them were Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons;3Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s business manager; Susanna; and many others who were contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples.
- “Is it wrong for me to look for a potential spouse at church?”
- Some advice for marrieds
- Don’t say stupid things to single people!
- Build some bridges toward single people!
- One last question some single people ask: “Will my desire for intimacy ever be fully satisfied?”
- Luke 20:34-36 (NAS) 34And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,35but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;36for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.”
- Hosea 2:19-20 (NAS) 19“I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, In lovingkindness and in compassion,20And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.” Then you will know the LORD.
- Conclusion
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