Episode 051: 1 Corinthians 7
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5.0 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Emma expounds on Paul's words to singles in 1 Corinthians 7. How are singles to remain faithful in their singleness? How can married people encourage their single friends? How can we both look to the Lord for purpose and life? Additional Resources:
Men's & Women's Community Groups
The Porch - 20s & 30s
Gather - 30s & 40s
Merge - Seriously Dating & Engaged Couples
Re|engage - a safe place for married couples to grow in their marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:08.8 | Thanks for joining. Do you think the church does a good job cheering on believers who aren't married? Do we support singles? Why are why not? Think about it. |
| 0:17.8 | Churches 10 years ago had singles ministries, but today Watermark has the porch and gather. |
| 0:23.7 | The emphasis or heart behind those names instead of singles ministry is on what God could do in and through singles, |
| 0:31.3 | as opposed to uniquely placing an emphasis on or calling out singleness itself. |
| 0:36.6 | In today's Devo, Lance, who leads Merge, Watermark's |
| 0:39.9 | premarital ministry, helps us see how Paul takes time to remind the Corinthians that each person |
| 0:45.7 | has their own gift from God, and we should not desire someone else's gift, but instead find |
| 0:51.5 | contentment and satisfaction in the Lord. But there's this reality that all of us do, are, or will struggle to find contentment in the Lord |
| 0:59.4 | at one point in our lives or another. |
| 1:01.6 | And I think for singles in the church, this struggle to be content is probably pretty frequent. |
| 1:06.6 | As I talked to discontent single friends, both in Dallas and really all over the country, |
| 1:11.4 | I've noticed a pattern. It seems like older and married believers are always asking the |
| 1:16.4 | singles if they're dating or if they're planning to take anyone out on a date. And then the single |
| 1:21.0 | person feels more and more disappointed. Thoughts like, God's holding out on me or I don't know |
| 1:26.1 | what's wrong with me, play and repeat. |
| 1:33.6 | But meanwhile, those older believers have experienced something good and likely want others to have a taste of what they've experienced. |
| 1:35.4 | They're really well-meaning. |
| 1:36.9 | They could be wrestling with their own discontentment, maybe wanting grandkids they don't |
| 1:41.6 | yet have, or maybe they don't understand the difference between |
| 1:45.3 | what was culturally acceptable in the dating world when they were younger, what's culturally normal now, |
| 1:50.4 | or what the biblical precedent is for singleness. We don't talk about it much. And again, |
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