Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships. This week we’re looking at singleness. What does the Bible say to the unmarried, divorced, widowed or simply unattached among us? We see in Scripture that for all those who belong to Christ, your relationship status is never an accident. God--who is sovereign over all and good to all he has made--has you where you on purpose, for a purpose.
*Thanks to Paige Brown, Marshall Segel, Dani Trewek and Rebecca McLaughlin for the articles, illustrations and research that informed this message!
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“Am I a Christian single or am I a single Christian? The difference in mindset is profound. Which word is determinative and which is descriptive? . . . we singles are chronic amnesiacs-- we forget who we are, we forget whose we are. I am a single Christian. My identity is not found in my marital status but in my redemptive status. I am one of the 'haves,' not one of the 'have-nots.' "- Paige Brown
"Singleness has the potential to be a garden—or a gym, or a kitchen, or a school—for undistracted devotion to Jesus unlike any other season of our lives … We have to stop believing the lie that everything we have here is all we have, and start thinking of everything we have here as something to invest in what’s to come. We develop those spiritual muscles now by saying, with everything we have and do now, that Jesus is our greatest treasure. Life is short, and everything we have and see here is passing away. Everything but Jesus.”— Marshall Segel
“What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.”- Michael Scott