What God Has to Say About Singleness

This class explores “What God has to say about Singleness” with our special guest, Sam Allberry. Sam is a pastor, apologist, speaker, and author of a number of books, including 7 Myths About Singleness.

Sam will help us begin to process the experience of being single in today’s world by viewing the common struggles and misconceptions through a gospel lens. How does the Bible speak into the desires for companionship, security, and sexual intimacy? How does the Word of God expose the lies that are sown by the prevailing cultural narrative? Lies that tell us that marriage is guaranteed, or that our value comes from becoming a spouse, or that singleness consigns one to a life of loneliness? Join us as we explore how we can wrestle with God well in the midst of this pain, and the ultimate hope we have in Christ. As Sam writes in his book, “If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel, singleness shows us its sufficiency.”

This class is for all of us—singles and marrieds. We want to equip ourselves as a church to be able to love and serve our single brothers and sisters well, and this CE class is one way we desire to take steps forward in this conversation. In the same way that we need one another in our marriages and parenting, let’s begin to see how we can grow as a church family alongside our single brothers and sisters—that no matter what season of life we’re in, to help each other be single-minded in our pursuit of Christ as our greatest treasure.