Navigating Singleness as a Christian: Biblical Principles for Purpose and Contentment | Jonny Ardavanis
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Jonny Ardavanis
5 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jonny Ardavanis and Brandon Wolf discuss the often overlooked topic of Christian singleness, addressing half of all adults in Western churches. Learn biblical perspectives on singleness as a gift, how to steward this season purposefully, and the balance between contentment and desire for marriage.
Key topics include:
- Paul's teachings on "undistracted devotion to the Lord" (1 Corinthians 7)
- How Christianity revolutionized the view of singleness in society
- Practical accountability strategies for single Christians
- Navigating the tension between desire for marriage and current singleness
- Avoiding common pitfalls like living for the weekend or creating spouse-like expectations with friends
Whether you're single by choice, circumstance, or waiting on God's timing, this conversation offers biblical wisdom for living purposefully while single. Part 3 in our Dating Series.
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| 0:00.0 | It's interesting that the Christian faith is the one that kind of took on and said, |
| 0:03.9 | hey, it's okay to be single and your life is not worthless. |
| 0:06.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.8 | And how the world has now twisted that. |
| 0:08.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.9 | So now singleness has become, well, why would I ever want to get married? |
| 0:12.0 | And they've twisted the fact that what was God's intention in the singleness? |
| 0:15.5 | Use it faithfully to serve me and bring me glory. |
| 0:18.6 | And now it's used me faithfully to serve myself. |
| 0:21.8 | In the church today, in a Western context, |
| 0:23.9 | 30% of adults are single, |
| 0:26.0 | 10% are divorced, and 10% are widowed, |
| 0:29.5 | which means that when we talk about the subject of singleness, |
| 0:31.7 | we're addressing half of the adults in the room. |
| 0:35.0 | So it's very important. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah. the adults in the room. So it's very important. Welcome to the Dial and Ministry Studio. My name is Johnny Artivannis. I'm sitting here with Brandon Wolf. We've been walking Brandon through a series on dating. So far we've talked through |
| 0:53.3 | who to date and we focus primarily on character and chemistry. |
| 0:57.7 | Do they love the Lord? |
| 0:58.4 | Are they a hard worker? |
| 0:59.6 | Are they teachable? |
| 1:00.5 | And then, obviously, are you end to them? |
| 1:02.3 | And then in our recent episode, we talked about how to date. |
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