Countercultural Single Life

In his first letter to the Corinthian church, the apostle Paul presents a striking and countercultural perspective on the single life (see especially 1 Corinthians 7). In contrast to the Greek and Roman cultures of his day that viewed unmarried life as a societal dead end, Paul taught the church that this state is a good one that is blessed by God and of great use in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. As young people living in the twenty-first century, we do well to pay close attention to what the...