The ‚couples culture‘ is everywhere: church family events, valentine’s day, cinema, popular music and even supermarket offers. Being single can often mean you are singled-out. But Kate wants to encourage Christians, holding singleness up as a unique opportunity for holiness, personal development and Christian living.
In her book, Kate tackles the common challenges many face when reconciling their relational choices:
– Issues of Identity: church roles, social invitations and being whole without an ‚other half‘
– Finance: learning to live alone when it’s cheaper to live with others
– Sexual Pressure: staying pure, in thinking as well as action
– Friendship: how to be ‚just friends‘ with the opposite sex
– Calling: when the cost of obedience is to stay single
– Divorce or Bereavement: learning to be single again
‚When we are sold out for God, ‚ she says, ‚then life will be the very best that it can be – whether married or single, with children or without – because we will be on our way to becoming who we were created to be.‘
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Foreword 13
Introduction 15
1 Wholly single 21
2 Living a God-obsessed life in a marriage-obsessed church 49
3 Purely single 77
4 Living a God-obsessed life in a sex-obsessed world 97
5 Single again 125
6 Living together 147
7 Happily ever after… 171
Recommended reading 189
Notes 190
Über den Autor
Kate is Vicar of St. George’s Church in Everton, Liverpool. Before ordination she worked as a Speech & Language Therapist and then as a Church Pastoral Assistant. She enjoys travelling, playing badminton, watching football, and going out with friends. She is a regular speaker at New Wine. She has been single for 33 years!