Hey friend, I'm Julie Slattery and welcome to this week's job with Julie. This is a listener-supported

podcast from Authentic Inimacy where we are dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality.

And that includes his design for singleness. So grab your coffee and your thinking cap because today

we're going to go deep in my conversation

with Dr. Danny Trujic. Danny is a woman who's passionate about helping Christians understand

how God views singleness and helping Christian leaders move singles from the margins into the

middle of their church communities. Now if you listen to Job with Julie often, you've probably heard me say

many times how marriage and sexuality are really a metaphor that point to a greater future

marriage of Christ and his church. That's a helpful theology of marriage, but sometimes we

scratch our heads and say, well, how does that apply to you if you're single? What does singleness point

to? Well, in our conversation What does singleness point to?

Well, in our conversation today, Danny's going to help us wrestle through that. And she

articulates this in a way that I think is so clear that I just can't wait to share this

conversation with you. Danny has spent so much time thinking through this, studying the

scriptures. She wrote her doctoral dissertation

on a theology of singleness. And she talks about how we're actually not going to spend eternity

as husbands and wives. Marriage is actually a temporary state, but we will spend them as brothers

and sisters in Christ. Together we are going to be Christ's bride. That's right. Singleness has an eternal purpose

of its own that points us to our heavenly future. So as we break that down, you might be surprised

to learn that actually single people don't necessarily have more free time than married people.

Singleness doesn't mean that you're selfish and marriage means that you're unselfish.

And singles who are committed to celibacy until marriage actually aren't exceptional.

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