Last night a dozen or so of us gathered at the church office for a ministrylab on the topic of Singleness. It's one of those tricky topics, I reckon--singleness is viewed with such suspicion by many these days, but the topic has our 'hearts', big time.
One of the stories that came out quite clearly was the significance that single people have in the lives of married people, and that married people have in the lives of single people. That's why singleness is a topic for our whole church: because we love one another in community. As long as we reduce 'singleness' to merely 'coping with singleness', or 'the problem of singleness', then of course we'll leave it to single people to figure out amongst themselves. Rather, we'd do well to honour singleness as a legitimate, intelligible, and even good way of being in the world--and that's a call to married people as much as to anyone.
Kudos to the married people who came along :)
You'll find the notes to the ministrylab here.
