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How Churches Can Include Single Parents: Ron Deal and Gayla Grace

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Network

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ron Deal and author Gayla Grace explore the pain of exclusion, sharing practical, gospel-centered strategies for how churches can include single parents.

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0:00.0

Hey, why don't you tell everybody one of your favorite Bible verses?

0:03.0

Okay, I will because it's Psalm 119, 105.

0:07.2

And that verse says, your word is a lamp from my feet and a light on my path.

0:12.4

I mean, what an awesome Bible verse that reminds us how Scripture lights the way in marriage and parenting and basically everything else.

0:21.5

And we're super grateful to the Christian Standard Bible for supporting this podcast.

0:26.2

Yes, we are.

0:26.6

And just for their work and helping people read God's word clearly and faithfully.

0:32.2

To learn more, go to CSbival.com.

0:45.4

Here's the thing that I think we need to ponder and maybe shift in how we do church.

0:51.9

For years, we sort of said, let's put the married young couples over here. Let's put the married with teenagers over here. Let's put the single parents over here. Let's put the singles in a singles group. And so we divided everybody up.

0:59.0

I think the strategy needs to shift. I think we had to give people opportunities, for example, in

1:05.3

small groups or Sunday school classes, to be with lots of different kinds of people.

1:18.0

Welcome to Family Life Today,

1:21.7

where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

1:22.8

I'm Ann Wilson.

1:26.9

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at Family Life Today.com.

1:28.9

This is Family Life today.com. This is family life today.

1:41.1

All right. It's a fun day. It's a fun day. You know why? I want to know what you think a fun day is.

1:45.5

It's having Ron Deal and Gayla Grace with us. That makes a really good day.

1:50.3

That's what I was thinking too. Were you? Yeah. I wonder if they're thinking it's a fun day. What do you guys think, Ron and Gaila? Absolutely. It's a fun day, Dave. It will be interesting for sure.

1:56.7

Interesting. That's a good word. Yeah. Well, for those of you that don't know, which means,

2:02.5

you know, I don't know where you've been hiding because everybody knows that Ron and Gala

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