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If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel,  singleness shows us its sufficiency. Much of what we commonly assume about singleness—that it is primarily about the absence of good things like intimacy, family, or meaningful ministry—is either flat-out untrue or, at the very least, shouldn't be true. To be single, we often think, is to be alone and spiritually hindered. But the Bible paints a...

single. Each has his or her own gift, meaning that each is either single (like Paul) or else married. His point is that both marriage and singleness are gifts, as far as Paul’s concerned. Marriage is a gift, and so too is singleness. Most of us know someone who fails spectacularly to understand what we actually enjoy. (I once received a gift from a local friend so bad that it meant having to leave it at a thrift shop in another town to avoid the risk of the giver coming across it and realizing what I’d