6 Tips On How Married Christians Can Embrace Single Adults

5. Recognize that you need single people to show you what the resurrection is really all about.

Rodney Clapp (and Stanley Hauerwas) said it best:

“Without children, the Israelite fears the single’s name will burn out, sift to ashes and be scattered and forgotten in the winds of time. But Paul has seen the arrival of a new hope. Jesus has risen from the land of death and forgetfulness, and so someday shall all who have died.  And Jesus has inaugurated the kingdom, a kingdom most fundamentally known and seen not among brothers and sisters in kin, but among brothers and sisters in Christ. Thus Hauerwas says of singles, ‘There can be no more radical act than [singleness], as it is the clearest institutional expression that one’s future is not guaranteed by the family, but by the church. The church, the harbinger of the Kingdom of God is now the source of our primary loyalty.’”

6. Invest in the single people around you.

If you want to know how to honor the image of God in single adults, get to know the single adults around you. The singles-marrieds divide in many churches is just as powerful as other cultural divides. Be intentional about crossing that divide. It’s only then that you’ll begin to understand how to love single people well.

This post was written by Christena Cleveland.

You can purchase her book Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart over on Amazon here. 

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