Piper Clarifies on Singleness and Marriage

Piper’s sermon on Sunday, “Single in Christ: A Better Name Than Sons and Daughters,” has provokes some questions and confusion regarding marriage. See at the bottom of our previous post Thoughts on Singleness for a couple examples (the two articles at Boundless Line). He tries to answer some of those questions and concerns in this article: Married or Single: For Better or Worse.

Dear Friend,

You ask: “What is at all compelling about marriage? Why would we even want to be married?”

The “compelling” comes only from the right combination of internal realities and objective truths about God’s design for marriage. When the right combination is not there, marriage is not compelling and should not be. I would say the same thing about singleness.

Read the whole article.

See also our previous post Thoughts on Singleness.

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