A Call to Action
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...
~Henry V, 3.1.1
Our friends and sisters and brothers on the Gift of Singleness blog, linked on the sidebar (http://thegiftofsingleness.blogspot.com), have put in a Call to Prayer beginning tomorrow, Sunday, May 20, concerning the singleness crisis sweeping the Western church.
Check out the posts for suggestions on prayer focus. They're asking for everyone to put in one solid hour tomorrow, and for Christians all over the world to begin stepping up 24 hours of prayer, 7 days a week.
We know that a lot of times singleness isn't fun, or has a lot of crazy and often hilarious dating stories associated with it; but there are a lot of serious issues connected with it too, which we've all talked about before, and which affect more than just us as individuals. Whether we're in relationships or not, married or not, there are a lot of people in the church getting older and not getting married, and this poses some grave concerns for the church as a whole. The Gift of Singleness blog (lovely British tongue-in-cheek title) addresses the issues very well, basing a lot of their posts on Debbie Maken's Getting Serious about Getting Married, an excellent book which Marianne has reviewed on FabFemales before.
This is a perfect opportunity for us to gather together across time zones and space and join as believers in prayer to our sovereign Father -- to intervene for us, the suffering singles; to bring more men back into the church; to ease the hurt of the young and not-so-young women who, as a result of being told that singleness is God's will for them, when their deepest desire is for family, are angry with God; to reunify the body of Christ; to work on the church to return to a biblical understanding of the necessity of marriage and family, and stop preaching the "gift of singleness" to a hungry, lonely, and largely complacent generation; and to show us how to direct our action to affect change.
And hey, even if you think all of this is melodramatic, or wrong, an hour of prayer is still a rockin' good idea.
Check out the blog.
~Henry V, 3.1.1
Our friends and sisters and brothers on the Gift of Singleness blog, linked on the sidebar (http://thegiftofsingleness.blogspot.com), have put in a Call to Prayer beginning tomorrow, Sunday, May 20, concerning the singleness crisis sweeping the Western church.
Check out the posts for suggestions on prayer focus. They're asking for everyone to put in one solid hour tomorrow, and for Christians all over the world to begin stepping up 24 hours of prayer, 7 days a week.
We know that a lot of times singleness isn't fun, or has a lot of crazy and often hilarious dating stories associated with it; but there are a lot of serious issues connected with it too, which we've all talked about before, and which affect more than just us as individuals. Whether we're in relationships or not, married or not, there are a lot of people in the church getting older and not getting married, and this poses some grave concerns for the church as a whole. The Gift of Singleness blog (lovely British tongue-in-cheek title) addresses the issues very well, basing a lot of their posts on Debbie Maken's Getting Serious about Getting Married, an excellent book which Marianne has reviewed on FabFemales before.
This is a perfect opportunity for us to gather together across time zones and space and join as believers in prayer to our sovereign Father -- to intervene for us, the suffering singles; to bring more men back into the church; to ease the hurt of the young and not-so-young women who, as a result of being told that singleness is God's will for them, when their deepest desire is for family, are angry with God; to reunify the body of Christ; to work on the church to return to a biblical understanding of the necessity of marriage and family, and stop preaching the "gift of singleness" to a hungry, lonely, and largely complacent generation; and to show us how to direct our action to affect change.
And hey, even if you think all of this is melodramatic, or wrong, an hour of prayer is still a rockin' good idea.
Check out the blog.
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