Dear BPCWA worshipper, Last week, we saw that a Christian marriage must fulfill God’s purpose and glorify Him. We do this when married couples set their hearts on achieving God’s purpose, which is to enable each other to better love, obey, and serve God, to increase the church with holy seed, and to prevent uncleanness. The world conditions us to look at marriage in its own light, but Christians who are married must understand and live out God’s plan in their marriages every day. Good marriages are important for the church. Marriages are usually a time for celebration for everyone. However, is God going to be pleased with every marriage? This must be a question that every married couple must
Read moreDear BPCWA worshipper, We have just covered the purpose, plan, and privileges from God for singles whom He called and gifted with singlehood. Many wish to be married and some are already married. The church is made up of both married and singles, and both are crucial to God’s work on earth. Hence, for those whom God calls to marriage one day and those who are already in a marriage, it is important that you also know the biblical purpose, plan, and privileges of marriage too. God’s purpose for marriage. If a believer’s most basic act of eating and drinking is to be for the glory of God, “Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all
Read moreDear BPCWA worshipper, In my last pastoral, I wrote about how singlehood is ordained by God. When we understand that singlehood is God’s gift, we must not only treasure it, but also see it as the means to better serve Him in church and use the life that He has given to us. Christians should not be influenced by the world to think that singles are worse off than the married, as if God has unfairly given some of His children the raw end of the deal if He has ordained them to singlehood. Ultimately, whether married or single, we are called to be Christ’s servants – for His use in a manner that He specifies as best for each
Read moreDear BPCWA worshipper, I wrote about what was covered at the Family Seminar in some recent pastorals. Families are important because one of the reasons that God ordained marriage is to have godly seed for His church and work. However, we must also remember that God has also called some to singlehood as well. While God has set some apart to marriage to glorify Him in that estate, He has also set apart some singles to glorify Him for His work’s sake. So, to set things in the right and complete perspective of both groups in the church, it is also important to cover in this pastoral God’s purpose for singles in His church and work on earth. A single
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