Single Dating Engaged Married Part 2 The Gift of Singleness - Ben Stuart

Notes:

• 4 stages of dating:
• Singleness, dating, engaged, and married
• Opening verses b4 prayer:

• “What we want is not always what’s best for us. What’s best for us, we don’t always value and appreciate.”
• Due to ignorance - takes love and wisdom to overturn that
• “Sometimes the most loving gift is singleness”

• Dating, singleness, and marriage “are not the main storylines of your life.”
• “The time on the clock should effect how you play.”
• Should be far more concerned about the state of someone’s soul than their relationship status.
• Dating is a distraction. One’s attention won’t be on God in that case

• Singleness season: freedom w/ a purpose.

• Don’t soak up your time with someone else’s life instead of your own life. Focus on you, not them

• What will pursuing an undistracted devotion to Christ look like for you?