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[1103.40 --> 1103.68] church,
[1103.82 --> 1104.34] hogwash,
[1104.48 --> 1104.80] I've been waiting
[1104.80 --> 1105.42] to say that word.
[1106.06 --> 1106.70] It's hogwash.
[1107.74 --> 1108.92] The church has to change
[1108.92 --> 1109.44] that narrative.
[1109.80 --> 1110.46] We have to.
[1111.04 --> 1111.74] Or the single people
[1111.74 --> 1113.64] will always look at their lives
[1113.64 --> 1114.54] as missing something
[1114.54 --> 1115.06] from God.
[1116.38 --> 1117.42] The reality is
[1117.42 --> 1118.02] God has put them
[1118.02 --> 1119.06] in a place to serve him
[1119.06 --> 1119.76] and his kingdom
[1119.76 --> 1120.48] in a multitude
[1120.48 --> 1121.32] of unique ways,
[1121.32 --> 1122.74] and we need to celebrate
[1122.74 --> 1124.10] that as a church.
[1126.90 --> 1128.08] A second obstacle
[1128.08 --> 1129.62] is the feeling
[1129.62 --> 1130.34] of loneliness
[1130.34 --> 1131.86] that can come
[1131.86 --> 1133.40] to one who is single.
[1134.28 --> 1134.68] And again,
[1134.74 --> 1135.24] this is something
[1135.24 --> 1135.70] that the church,
[1135.80 --> 1136.58] we just have to do
[1136.58 --> 1137.32] a better job
[1137.32 --> 1138.20] of combating.
[1140.38 --> 1141.56] Jesus himself,
[1141.70 --> 1142.38] in Mark 3,
[1142.46 --> 1143.84] verses 31 to 35,
[1144.34 --> 1144.94] he's asked,
[1145.10 --> 1145.76] who is your family?
[1146.48 --> 1147.22] And he answers
[1147.22 --> 1147.70] and he points
[1147.70 --> 1148.38] to his disciples
[1148.38 --> 1148.94] and he says,
[1149.26 --> 1150.22] here is my mother
[1150.22 --> 1151.16] and my brother
[1151.16 --> 1152.22] and my sisters.
[1152.44 --> 1153.26] Here is my family.
[1153.34 --> 1154.04] His point is not
[1154.04 --> 1154.60] to belittle
[1154.60 --> 1156.32] his real family,
[1156.70 --> 1157.84] his biological family,
[1158.50 --> 1160.68] but it's to raise up
[1160.68 --> 1161.72] a new family,
[1161.82 --> 1162.56] the church who would
[1162.56 --> 1163.94] care for and look
[1163.94 --> 1165.14] after one another
[1165.14 --> 1166.64] beyond the bonds
[1166.64 --> 1168.12] of biology.
[1170.06 --> 1171.18] For a single person
[1171.18 --> 1171.68] in the church,
[1171.80 --> 1172.80] this family of faith
[1172.80 --> 1174.06] needs to become part
[1174.06 --> 1176.10] of their nuclear family.
[1176.26 --> 1177.20] They shouldn't need
[1177.20 --> 1178.30] a husband or a wife
[1178.30 --> 1179.92] to fulfill that communal role
[1179.92 --> 1180.54] in their lives.
[1180.86 --> 1182.56] The body should be
[1182.56 --> 1184.40] that community for them.
[1186.24 --> 1187.74] If the church functioned
[1187.74 --> 1188.56] as Christ calls it
[1188.56 --> 1189.16] to function,
[1190.10 --> 1191.36] loneliness should not affect
[1191.36 --> 1192.76] the single Christian
[1192.76 --> 1193.66] for long
[1193.66 --> 1195.40] because they would be
[1195.40 --> 1196.64] enveloped
[1196.64 --> 1199.42] into the family of Christ.
[1202.82 --> 1204.38] Singleness is just as big
[1204.38 --> 1205.54] a benefit to one's life
[1205.54 --> 1206.76] and to Christ's body
[1206.76 --> 1207.38] as marriage.
[1207.38 --> 1208.44] Right now,
[1208.52 --> 1208.90] though the church
[1208.90 --> 1209.92] generally views marriage
[1209.92 --> 1211.08] in a more positive light,
[1211.28 --> 1212.86] it would behoove all of us
[1212.86 --> 1213.72] to swing that pendulum
[1213.72 --> 1214.44] back to the middle.
[1216.06 --> 1216.82] After all,
[1216.88 --> 1217.86] both Paul and Jesus
[1217.86 --> 1218.94] say that it is special
[1218.94 --> 1220.16] and it is beneficial
[1220.16 --> 1221.36] to be single
[1221.36 --> 1222.44] in this life.
[1223.80 --> 1225.16] There's a beautiful quote
[1225.16 --> 1226.70] from Evan Lanau
[1226.70 --> 1228.38] and he sums up this nicely.
[1229.08 --> 1229.50] He says,
[1229.50 --> 1231.82] both Jesus and Paul
[1231.82 --> 1233.34] retained a positive outlook
[1233.34 --> 1234.00] on singleness
[1234.00 --> 1236.00] because they recognized