Episode 6: On Pastoring Singles

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We just released a Journal with close to 20 articles on Pastoring Singles. Because the Journal was Mark’s idea, Jonathan sat down with him to ask questions on the topic.

SHOW NOTES:

– Why a Journal on singles? (0:40)

– What are the biggest challenges and benefits of pastoring singles (1:30)

– How do you simultaneously affirm marriage while not undermining God’s distinct purposes for singles? (3:20)

– When do you encourage someone to remain single? How do you encourage them to make the most of their singleness? (8:10)

– How can singles be integrated into a congregation? (12:15)

– What about single elders/pastors? (14:00)

– For the single who feels left out, what should a church do? (15:55)

– What do you do when you inherit a church with a robust singles program? (18:10)

– Why “your sex life is your identity” is a satanic lie. (20:45)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Jonathan Lehman.
0:05.0	And this is Mark Deber.
0:07.0	And we're here for another episode of...
0:09.8	Pastors.
0:11.0	Talk.
0:11.8	Yep.
0:13.1	Mark...
0:13.6	You've learned how to cooperate with these things.
0:15.0	I know.
0:15.5	I was waiting for some sort of interruption for you to take in a different direction.
0:18.5	Not yet.
0:20.6	You, Ryan Townsend and I were sitting
0:23.3	at lunch one day talking about future Nine Marks journals and suddenly you're like, hey, let's do a
0:28.9	journal on pastoring singles. And I'm like, really is there much to say? And then you like exploded
0:33.5	with 14 ideas. I hope you wrote those down. Well, we did, and we used a number of them.
0:39.9	Why is that a topic that you thought we needed to do a whole journal on and maybe even talk
0:44.7	about now?
0:45.3	Pastoring singles.
0:46.4	What's the big deal here?
0:48.3	Marriage is statistically declining.
0:50.3	Singles are the future.
0:52.6	They're not all the future, but they're the youngest people in your congregation,
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