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Now nationally when we move from our church to our city to our nation

nationally about half of American adults are unmarried singles.

So this is a growing number because people are waiting longer to marry.

In 1960, the average man was 23, the average woman was 20 upon marriage.

Today the average man is 27, the average woman is 23.

And so people are waiting longer to marry, but is that because they love Jesus and are maintaining

their purity and using all of their time to memorize verses? No. We dealt with that

last week and what singles tend to do is wait longer to get married. with that

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