A Match Made in Heaven: How Singles and the Church Can Live Happily Ever AfterSingle adults--the fastest growing household type in America--are leaving the church in droves because they don't find it a place to belong. This unfortunate fact is equally obvious to an overwhelming majority of surveyed pastors who consistently rate their church's ministry to singles as poor, or fair at best. God's intent for a win-win relationship between the two may have been lost, but the map is still available. This engaging book dares you to believe that things can, and should, be radically different between singles and the church. There is a way you can make the dream come true.
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Contents
An Unlikely Pair | 27 |
Getting To Know You | 39 |
Knowledge | 43 |
Singles | 54 |
The Church | 70 |
A Picture or Perfect Singleness | 89 |
The Rest or the Story | 100 |
Making Sense or Church | 114 |
Loves Me Loves Me Not | 149 |
Loving Singles | 168 |
Loving me Church | 192 |
Until Death DO Us Part | 215 |
Gointf the Distance | 219 |
Paul s View 0r Singleness in 1 Corinthians 7 | 222 |
Endnotes | 237 |
Resources for Additional Study | 250 |
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