In the last podcast, we talked about Adam's singleness and why it was not good.

And of course, this raises the question of whether singleness itself is intrinsically bad.

What would you say to the singles, especially to those who may be called to a life of singleness

Pastor John?

No, I wrote two chapters on singleness in my book on marriage.

And the reason I did it is because I knew that if you're going to celebrate marriage,

you're going to have single people reading it and saying, oh, so that's the great life

and I get the other life.

And my point there was no.

There are glories that can be shown in marriage that can't be shown in singleness given.

There are glories that can't be shown in marriage but only in singleness given.

If God has called you to a life of singleness, there are ways in and by that singleness to

display the glory of God which married people can't.

It does involve other people.

So my point stays the same.

God created the other.

And I said other partly because I knew that it's not just wife.

It's not just husband.

It is other human and single people are called into a life of receive one another as Christ

received you so that with one voice you may glorify him.

That is talking about the true eternal family.

And one of the things I stressed in those chapters was marriage is temporary.

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