Singles at the Crossroads: A Fresh Perspective on Christian Singleness
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
One of the 1998 Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the Year
Nearly half of adults today are unmarried. But most churches emphasize marriage and family, leaving many Christian singles feeling marginalized or alienated. Though they look to Jesus and Paul as role models, many suspect they would be more acceptable to the church—and God—if they settled down and got married.
Albert Hsu challenges this view. Christian singles don’t need tips on finding a mate or advice on suffering through the single life. What they need is a truly Christian understanding of singleness--a biblically grounded, theologically informed perspective that honors singleness equally with marriage and family.
Moving beyond pat answers, Hsu
- debunks the myth of the “gift of singleness”
- chronicles how the church has overemphasized both singleness and marriage
- works through discerning God’s will as a single Christian
- explains why searching for the right marriage partner can be misguided—even unbiblical
- grapples with loneliness, aloneness and community
- warns of common mistakes regarding dating, love and sex
Hsu draws insight from an interview with John Stott as well as from the stories of other Christian students and professionals. Ultimately, singleness is not a problem to be solved by marriage, he says; rather, like marriage, it is an opportunity in which to follow Jesus. Singles at the Crossroads points the way to a Christian community where all members are valued, Jew and Gentile, slave and free, male and female, married and single.
- Addresses common questions and misconceptions
- Explores issues of loneliness, aloneness, and community
- Provides a vision for Christian community where all members are valued
- Why This Book?
- Where Singles Are Today
- A Brief History of Singleness
- The Myth of the Gift
- The Issue of God’s Will
- Freedom and Opportunity
- From Loneliness to Solitude
- From Aloneness to Community
- Rethinking Romance
- Temptations Singles Face
- Epilogue: A Vision for the Future
- Appendix: John Stott on Singleness
- Title: Singles at the Cross-Roads: A Fresh Perspective on Christian Singleness
- Author: Albert Y. Hsu
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 181
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Single people › Religious life
- ISBNs: 9780830876891, 0830813535, 0830876898, 9780830813537
- Resource ID: LLS:SNGLSCRSSNGLNSS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:03:35Z
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Larry Craig
5/1/2020
In the Garden of Eden, when the world and humans were still perfect and innocent, God said that it was not good for man to be alone. Humans were designed to have a mate. Not having one is the rare exception rather than the rule. The churches are right to emphasize families, but, yes, you don't want to alienate people. But the church risks that all the time if they teach on sin.
