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Well, Dr. Christopher Yuan reminds us that there is a vital reality that we need to keep in mind about <em>every<\/em> relationship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Our most intimate relationships, here on earth and eternity, are the ones that are bound by the blood of Christ\u2014those are the only relationships. Even marriage is temporary; there will be no marriage in heaven, no matter how you look at it\u2014Jesus\u2019 words in Matthew 22\u2014the only relationships that will shift from now to eternity are the ones bound by the blood of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>We\u2019re going to take a look at what the Bible says about singleness; and if you're married, there's probably still something you might learn on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. When you think of the word, \u201csingle,\u201d as describing someone who isn't married, what kind of adjectives would you use or have you <em>heard<\/em> used? Well, there's the obvious one: \u201cunmarried,\u201d or there's \u201cunattached,\u201d \u201cundivided,\u201d \u201cindividual,\u201d; I've heard, \u201clone ranger.\u201d And then, look at all the lengths that singles go to today to make connection\u2014I mean, there\u2019s speed dating; there are matchmaking services; there's online dating\u2014all your weird apps. There's even participating in reality shows like <em>Married at First Sight<\/em>, which is terrible, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But all of this to say, we were made for relationship\/for companionship\u2014to be <em>known<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That's the way that God made us, and we see that clearly as we read His Word. Now, I'm not saying that all singles are miserable or discontent; but I <em>do<\/em> think there is a misunderstanding. I also see people jumping through hoops to find \u201cthe one.\u201d But what should our main goal be in life?\u2014is it to find \u201cthe one\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>There's a single man I know, who knows his main goal. His main goal is to <em>know<\/em> and serve \u201cthe One\u201d\u2014as in, Jesus Christ. And I'm going to have a conversation with my friend, Christopher Yuan; but I want you to hear his backstory. So here's Christopher describing himself at a very pivotal moment in his life, back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Broadcast]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I opened up my front door, and I was expecting friends; I was expecting, maybe, people to come to pick up their drugs; so I didn't even look out my peephole. And on my front doorstep were about a dozen Federal Drug Enforcement agents, Atlanta police, and their German Shepherd drug dogs. I had just received a fairly large shipment of drugs that I had just opened; it was right behind me on my kitchen counter top. They opened the door, saw it in plain sight, and came right in. They confiscated my money\/my drugs, and I was charged with the street value equivalent of 9.1 tons of marijuana. With that amount, I was facing ten years to life.<\/p>\n<p>I did <em>not<\/em> think I was going to get caught. I thought that I was invincible\/no one was ever going to touch me. So, when I finally got arrested, it was unbelief\u2014I couldn't believe that this was it. Well, I got some even worse news for all inmates that come through the system\u2014the federal system\u2014they all have to get a physical. I went through the physical\u2014got blood tests. A week after that, I was called back to the hospital. I sat there in the nurse's office. She was all nervous, just uncomfortably struggling with the words; so she wrote something on a piece of paper. She slowly slid it across the desk to me, and on the piece of paper I saw three letters and a symbol; and it read, \u201cHIV+.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a few days after I was incarcerated, and I was walking around the cell block.<\/p>\n<p>I passed by a garbage can. It was just\u2014just <em>filth<\/em> coming out of it. I thought, \u201cThat's my life: trash!\u201d I was <em>about<\/em> to walk by that trash can; and yet, I saw something on top of that trash; it was a Gideon's New Testament.<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And that New Testament has changed the life of Christopher Yuan, who now, by God's grace, is a speaker, an author, and an adjunct professor at Moody Bible Institute. He's now <em>Dr<\/em>. Christopher Yuan. I mean, think about it!\u2014a guy, who did time in prison, is <em>now<\/em> a Bible professor at Moody Bible Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I sat down with Dr. Christopher Yuan, and we had a conversation about singleness; and sexuality; and really, just identity: who we are in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>[Previous Interview]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Dr. Yuan, in your book\u2014in <em>Holy Sexuality and the Gospel<\/em>\u2014in the sections where you're speaking specifically to singles, you say that singles need to be welcomed, and valued, and loved as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. So why did you feel the need to actually say those words?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Well, I mean, it's\/you know, as an author, we write, a lot of times, from our own experience. I'm a single man. Yes; I write a lot and mostly on the issue of sexuality, focusing on same-sex attractions. As a single man, as well, I\u2019ve <em>realized<\/em> the need for the body of Christ to do a much better job in, not only ministering to those who are unmarried, but also having a healthier biblical understanding of singleness. I see that lacking, especially\u2014and there's many implications for that\u2014that when we don't have a correct\u2014I would call it a \u201ctheology of singleness\u201d\u2014that then has implications in how we <em>treat<\/em> people, who are single in the church and how we minister to them. You know, they're maybe second-best or, sometimes, if you're single, then you're viewed to be kind of immature\/you're not really there yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, they're perceived\u2014so maybe, you know, we could be putting that on ourselves through kind of, maybe, past experiences\u2014but definitely it's there. As the church, we need to recognize that, and we need to work against that. Knowing that it's there, we have to then counteract that with the correct biblical understanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>As I was reading through your book, I kept thinking, \u201cI need to pass this off to my pastor and to my leaders at church\u201d; because, not only was it just those chapters for the singles, but your <em>entire<\/em> book felt like it was for the <em>wholeness<\/em> of the body of Christ\u2014it was for the <em>wholeness<\/em> of everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> That was my hope!\u2014[Laughter]\u2014you know, obviously, with the title, <em>Holy Sexuality<\/em>\u2014in it\u2014<em>and<\/em> <em>the Gospel<\/em>. I wrote it primarily to address the issue of homosexuality, and people who have same-sex attractions\u2014how to reach out to the gay community\u2014but my goal underneath it was to have a resource for <em>everyone<\/em>\u2014not just people who have same-sex attractions, not just for people who have a gay loved one or a son or daughter who identifies as gay\u2014but for everyone, whether you're married\u2014and I have a couple chapters on marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> There's <em>tons<\/em> of\u2014you know, we're, here, at FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>!\u2014there are <em>tons<\/em> of incredible books on marriage; and I didn't want to, kind of, redo anything that's been done well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I wanted to help us to see how we can have this beautiful understanding of marriage; but sometimes, maybe, go too far to the point where we denigrate singleness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> So that's why I also had a couple chapters on singleness, which is very important for people like myself, who have same-sex attractions, who find ourselves not yet married.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I\u2019m open to marriage, but right now I'm not; so I'm not going to be wringing my hands, thinking, you know, \u201cOh, woe is me!\u201d or wringing my hands thinking, you know, \u201cI can't do anything until I find that one person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I believe in a sovereign God\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014that knows, you know, what is best for me <em>now<\/em>. And I know, with my full understanding of that: \u201cThis is what God has for me now,\u201d and \u201cI'm going to fully live in that, as a single man, for the glory of God, living to proclaim His goodness to all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>\u2014which is <em>awesome<\/em>; which is great to hear, but it's <em>hard<\/em> to practically play that out. And that's why, as I was reading through your book, I really appreciated hearing how you said Jesus defended marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And I believe that, and you can point to several passages where you see that; but you also say He defended singleness. Now, that was a paradigm shift; [Laughter] because I can't\u2014I mean, of course, you pointed that out in Scripture; but I wouldn't have been able to pull that <em>out<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>So help us understand that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; you know, it's funny because I wasn't raised a Christian at all. I didn't become a Christian until I was in my 30s, so I didn't have really good, solid teaching from church. But also, sometimes, what can come with that is\u2014sometimes, a little bit of baggage\/a little bit of kind of this misunderstanding,\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014where we do\u2014I mean, simply, you know, when you go to church next Sunday, open up your bulletin. There's going to be what's going on today, and then what's going on during the week, and also the programs. There's going to be <em>great<\/em> programs for kids; great programs for, maybe, newlyweds; great programs for empty nesters; great program for families; etc. And then\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>\u2014maybe college and career. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I mean, that \u201cmaybe\u201d is like <em>very<\/em>, <em>very<\/em> rare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And you say, \u201cCollege and career.\u201d I think, in my book, I kind of jokingly called it the, you know, \u201cSingles Ghetto.\u201d [Laughter] Because, you know, the churches are like, \u201cI don't know what to do with singles!\u201d It doesn't matter if they're never married, or widowed, or divorced\u2014which, by the way, we <em>all<\/em> have different needs, as people, who are unmarried\u2014but usually, it's an <em>afterthought<\/em>. When you look, the implied message\u2014it might not be completely explicit; we might not say it from the pulpit\u2014but the <em>implied<\/em> message is: \u201cSingles aren't <em>as<\/em> welcome as the families and the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t come in with that understanding\u2014I came in with fresh eyes\u2014I mean, I was just this, you know: \u201cI just became a Christian! I love Jesus!\u201d I didn't really have all these sort of implied messages from the past. I just opened up the Bible\u2014I'm like, \u201cJesus Christ was unmarried!\u201d And we also miss how radically counter-cultural that was\u2014for a Jewish man\/a Jewish <em>rabbi<\/em>\u2014in first century Israel\u2014to be single; that was unheard of. So that\u2014just for us to remember that\u2014Jesus, our Savior, was unmarried while here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>And Paul\u2014who wrote most of the New Testament\u2014he, also, was unmarried. We need to realize that that message of the New Testament is not a negative message <em>against<\/em> single people; that it's this beautiful message that, if we look clearly through the Gospels, and also in 1 Corinthians, there's a really positive message of both Jesus and the Apostle Paul lifting <em>up<\/em> the beauty and the sanctity of marriage while, at the same time, lifting up the goodness of singleness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>The goodness of singleness. And you had said, in your book, about: \u201cMarriage is advantageous; singleness is advantageous.\u201d And then you talked about the <em>gift<\/em> of singleness. I've just got to say that, when I think about a gift, I think of a nice, pretty wrapped gift underneath the Christmas tree that I'm <em>excited<\/em> to open up. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> That\u2019s right; yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And then I open it up; and usually I'm like: \u201cWow! That is so incredible,\u201d\u2014the person knew <em>exactly<\/em> who I am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>The gift of singleness is <em>not<\/em> that way for a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014not like that\u2014no; it's not. Let's say you open up that gift and you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, you know, well, it's not exactly what I want.\u201d What can you do? You can replace it; you can take to the store and get something that you want; right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Re-gift it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Re-gift it, or get something\u2014you know, replace it. So gifts, as we understand it <em>today<\/em>, whether it's your birthday or whether it's the holidays\/Christmas, we think about it as, honestly, a little bit kind of more <em>me<\/em>-centered.<\/p>\n<p>When we approach God's gifts that way, as kind of this me-centered\u2014you know: \u201cSomething that I enjoy,\u201d \u201cSomething that I want,\u201d \u201cSomething I need,\u201d\u2014that kind of distorts God's gifts, because God's gifts <em>can<\/em> be hard\/<em>can<\/em> be difficult. Take, for example, the spiritual gifts. Now, I talk about in my book\u2014years ago, I thought that singleness was a spiritual gift because of the Greek word that is used: \u201ccharisma\u201d\u2014but then, as I studied more, I realized that there are other things that are called \u201ccharisma\u201d that aren't necessarily a spiritual gift. But even the spiritual gifts, which is still considered a gift, like the gift of prophecy\u2014that's <em>not<\/em> an easy gift to like!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>No; it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Read the Old Testament\u2014I mean, all that they [prophets] went through for being\u2014many that lost their life!<\/p>\n<p>So the gifts from God aren't <em>me<\/em>-centered; they're all <em>God<\/em>-centered. And they're not going to always give us kind of happy, clappy joy, or you know, just kind of this, you know, \u201cEverything feels good, and no suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Sometimes, the gifts that God gives us <em>are<\/em> suffering; but suffering can also be a gift. Anyway, having this really God-centered understanding of singleness and gifts really, really helps.<\/p>\n<p>And then, the way I pointed it is\u2014we don't really need to read more into what Paul was saying in 1 Corinthians 7:7, that he calls this a gift\u2014that it doesn't have to be, \u201cWell, what is it, exactly?\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cDoes this gift mean that I'm good at something?\u201d or \u201c\u2026that I have some type of special ability?\u201d or whatever? I mean, if you just read the text, Paul kind of just mentions it; and he doesn't really develop it. I think maybe that was intentional; because maybe he was just saying: \u201cYou know what? It's just a gift!\u201d\u2014you know? So it's just <em>good<\/em>\u2014it's good <em>for you<\/em> from God\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014not necessarily like good, as in the way that we think like, \u201cOh!\u201d\u2014like\u2014\u201cI <em>enjoy<\/em> it for a moment,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201c\u2026for that time.\u201d But it's something that's a <em>gift<\/em>, and it's also a gift <em>for<\/em> the church; for us to bless others with.<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That's Part One of my discussion with Dr. Christopher Yuan. We need to take a break; but when we come back, we're going to talk about singleness in the church. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>[Radio Station Spot Break]<\/p>\n<p>[Previous Interview]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. I am talking today with Dr. Christopher Yuan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yuan, I want to circle back around to the church. How can singles enter in conversation with our pastors, our leaders\u2014our married friends\u2014to start feeling <em>included<\/em> in things? How do we <em>change<\/em> that conversation?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Well, I think, because our goal is to have our church, as the body of Christ\u2014other believers, who are married and are not single\u2014for them to better be able to understand us and to minister to us. And so I think, for them to minister correctly and to love correctly, they have to have that grounded in <em>truth<\/em>\u2014that was kind of actually one of the big premises of my book\u2014was that\u2014for example, addressing the issue of homosexuality. I don't think that the problem is that we need to love more; right? That's what we hear from the world\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right; exactly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u201cYou need to love more: You need to love your child,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cYou need to love the gay community.\u201d That's <em>not<\/em> the issue\u2014it's, \u201c<em>How<\/em> do we love?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Is our love\u2014and how you love is determined by our truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Love is\u2014the foundation for love is <em>truth<\/em>\u2014if you're building your love on false truth, your love is not really love. Same thing with: \u201cHow do we love our single sisters and brothers?\u201d \u201cHow do we love people like us, Michelle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Well, that love <em>needs<\/em> to be grounded in truth; because if your truth is, you know: \u201cSingleness is just this temporary stage,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cAnd everyone needs to be looking toward, you know, marriage; because that's the ultimate goal in life.\u201d You know, that's not really\u2014that's a little bit of a distorted truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And I don't think that's the correct truth that we see communicated clearly in the New Testament. Well, then, your love is going to look different; right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> You're love [based on a false truth] is going to look like: \u201cI need to hook you up with somebody,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cI want to fix you.\u201d [Laughter] That's why I joke in my book, \u201cI want to <em>fix <\/em>you up with someone, because you need to be <em>fixed<\/em> of singleness!\u201d\u2014right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Exactly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> The words that we use mean something. [Laughter] So that's why I <em>think<\/em> the best way\u2014instead of telling our married friends, \u201cYou need to minister to me this way\u2026\u201d\u2014give them some good resources on singleness. Actually, what I wrote from was grounded in several good books. One was this little pamphlet written by Barry Danylak, called \u201cA Biblical Theology of Singleness.\u201d It\u2019s only like, I don't know, maybe 40 pages; and it just was so\u2014it transformed the way I look at everything, and this is even while I was a single man\u2014just how God's vision\u2014it's not just a biblical theology of singleness; it's a biblical theology of <em>family<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Old Testament, everything is the family: the tribe, the clan, blood relatives; and in the New Testament\u2014yes; you have that focus\u2014but do you know what the focus really is on?\u2014it's on the family of God\u2014<em>that's<\/em> the true, eternal family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> All our mothers, brothers, sisters\u2014that's actually temporary\u2014I mean, look at the words of Jesus; He said: \u201cWho's my brother? Who\u2019s my sister?\u201d\u2014right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And, you know: \u201cIt's the one that obeys my Father; that's my brother and sister.\u201d Actually, our most intimate relationships, here on earth and eternity, are the ones that are bound by the blood of Christ. Those are the <em>only<\/em> relationships that will shift from now to eternity\u2014those are the only ones\u2014even marriage is temporary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> There will be no marriage in heaven, no matter how you look at it\u2014Jesus\u2019 words in Matthew 22\u2014there is not going to be that\u2014but the only relationships that we have, that will carry on in eternity, are those between brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>If our married friends in the church can <em>grasp<\/em> that, I think they will be completely <em>compelled<\/em> to be able to, you know, know that: \u201cMy single sister or brother is no different than I am,\u201d and \u201cTheir calling might look just a little bit different for now; but as I can learn from them, they can learn from me.\u201d It's this really healthy understanding of what the body of Christ is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Well, and it sounds like it's the basis of truth, with some love and understanding. And the love comes through the understanding part of who everybody is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>We're all different, and we all have different <em>needs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And I was just thinking, as you were talking about the ultimate goal of marriage\u2014really, truly, that's <em>all<\/em> of our ultimate goal\u2014is the marriage supper of the Lamb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And one day that will happen, and that will be a glorious thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; yes! Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>So Christopher, please\u2014what is the understanding of the theology of singleness?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> You know, it begins with the Old Testament, where I think a theology of singleness is closely tied to theology of family. Really, it's not really talked about much in the Old Testament; but then, when we move to the New Testament, this biblical theology <em>grows<\/em>. We see that, actually, as in the Old Testament, the people of God grew by procreation; right?\u2014having babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And people of the New Covenant\u2014we don't grow by procreation; how we grow is by regeneration\u2014and what that means, for the single individual, is that <em>we have family<\/em>! You know, Michelle, you can be a mother as a single woman. You can have daughters and sons, that you are discipling. I mean, that ties right into the Great Commission: \u201cGo and make disciples\u2026\u2014not just \u201cGo and make converts,\u201d\u2014\u201cGo and make disciples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And those disciples are our spiritual children; and our spiritual brothers and sisters are those who <em>also<\/em> have been converted from death to life, and put their faith in Jesus Christ. Having <em>that<\/em> understanding of singleness\u2014that's tied directly into a theology of family\u2014I think, to me, has <em>so<\/em> much meaning and gives me so much <em>hope<\/em>, as a single man\u2014that, yes, I might not have physical children of my own; but I definitely have spiritual children. That's much more important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Well, and this puts a <em>great<\/em> framework around singleness. I'm almost excited now in my single state; because it puts a framework of, \u201cWe're not fighting.\u201d And I think, at times, it feels like the families or the marriages can be fighting against the single people in church. This puts a whole new framework of: \u201cWe\u2019re all shooting towards the goal of heaven and living a life consecrated to Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; and also, see, I wanted to write a book that was <em>saturated<\/em> with the gospel\u2014that everything that we could see is\u2014like, it ties right into the gospel. And this is why singleness ties right into the gospel; because I have married folks and they have<\/p>\n<p>a beautiful, you know, life, with their family and kids and raising\u2014you know? And their kids are just, you know, these bubbly, fun kids. I\u2019m like\/you know, you could get to the point, where you\u2019re like: \u201cOh, man! I missed that.\u201d But you know what? I have all this extra time to be making spiritual babies. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I can be having spiritual children and being with a disciple, and that's what I'm called to now! I don't know about you, but I'm excited about that and being able to do that; because that's what it's all about. It's about sharing the gospel, preaching the gospel, living the gospel; and also, that gospel is about that discipleship\u2014that it's not just, \u201cI share Christ; they become a Christian,\u201d\u2014but then, it's: \u201cHow do we now live as a Christian to pursue holiness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That was my conversation with Dr. Christopher Yuan. It has been an <em>amazing<\/em> journey that God has taken him on; and through that, he encourages <em>so<\/em> many people. If you're curious about his background and about his story, go to our website,<\/p>\n<p>FamilyLifeThisWeek.com. Christopher shares his <em>entire<\/em> story in an interview with Bob Lepine and Dennis Rainey; and also, Christopher's mom, Angela, joins them.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we're going to continue our discussion on singleness, and we're going to bust some myths. Matt Perman\u2019s going to be my guest next week. Matt is the head of Career Development at King's College in New York City. I hope you can join us for that.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the President of FamilyLife, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. A big \u201cThank you!\u201d to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers, Marques Holt and Bruce Goff. 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are many erroneous ideas about singleness floating around amidst both religious and secular cultures. Christopher Yuan tackles these ideas head-on with truth straight from the Bible.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/flw\/flw2022-02-26.pdf","transcript_content":"<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Whether you're single or married, you probably know that relationships take work. Well, Dr. Christopher Yuan reminds us that there is a vital reality that we need to keep in mind about <em>every<\/em> relationship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Our most intimate relationships, here on earth and eternity, are the ones that are bound by the blood of Christ\u2014those are the only relationships. Even marriage is temporary; there will be no marriage in heaven, no matter how you look at it\u2014Jesus\u2019 words in Matthew 22\u2014the only relationships that will shift from now to eternity are the ones bound by the blood of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>We\u2019re going to take a look at what the Bible says about singleness; and if you're married, there's probably still something you might learn on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. When you think of the word, \u201csingle,\u201d as describing someone who isn't married, what kind of adjectives would you use or have you <em>heard<\/em> used? Well, there's the obvious one: \u201cunmarried,\u201d or there's \u201cunattached,\u201d \u201cundivided,\u201d \u201cindividual,\u201d; I've heard, \u201clone ranger.\u201d And then, look at all the lengths that singles go to today to make connection\u2014I mean, there\u2019s speed dating; there are matchmaking services; there's online dating\u2014all your weird apps. There's even participating in reality shows like <em>Married at First Sight<\/em>, which is terrible, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But all of this to say, we were made for relationship\/for companionship\u2014to be <em>known<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That's the way that God made us, and we see that clearly as we read His Word. Now, I'm not saying that all singles are miserable or discontent; but I <em>do<\/em> think there is a misunderstanding. I also see people jumping through hoops to find \u201cthe one.\u201d But what should our main goal be in life?\u2014is it to find \u201cthe one\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>There's a single man I know, who knows his main goal. His main goal is to <em>know<\/em> and serve \u201cthe One\u201d\u2014as in, Jesus Christ. And I'm going to have a conversation with my friend, Christopher Yuan; but I want you to hear his backstory. So here's Christopher describing himself at a very pivotal moment in his life, back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>[Previous <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>Broadcast]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I opened up my front door, and I was expecting friends; I was expecting, maybe, people to come to pick up their drugs; so I didn't even look out my peephole. And on my front doorstep were about a dozen Federal Drug Enforcement agents, Atlanta police, and their German Shepherd drug dogs. I had just received a fairly large shipment of drugs that I had just opened; it was right behind me on my kitchen counter top. They opened the door, saw it in plain sight, and came right in. They confiscated my money\/my drugs, and I was charged with the street value equivalent of 9.1 tons of marijuana. With that amount, I was facing ten years to life.<\/p>\n<p>I did <em>not<\/em> think I was going to get caught. I thought that I was invincible\/no one was ever going to touch me. So, when I finally got arrested, it was unbelief\u2014I couldn't believe that this was it. Well, I got some even worse news for all inmates that come through the system\u2014the federal system\u2014they all have to get a physical. I went through the physical\u2014got blood tests. A week after that, I was called back to the hospital. I sat there in the nurse's office. She was all nervous, just uncomfortably struggling with the words; so she wrote something on a piece of paper. She slowly slid it across the desk to me, and on the piece of paper I saw three letters and a symbol; and it read, \u201cHIV+.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a few days after I was incarcerated, and I was walking around the cell block.<\/p>\n<p>I passed by a garbage can. It was just\u2014just <em>filth<\/em> coming out of it. I thought, \u201cThat's my life: trash!\u201d I was <em>about<\/em> to walk by that trash can; and yet, I saw something on top of that trash; it was a Gideon's New Testament.<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And that New Testament has changed the life of Christopher Yuan, who now, by God's grace, is a speaker, an author, and an adjunct professor at Moody Bible Institute. He's now <em>Dr<\/em>. Christopher Yuan. I mean, think about it!\u2014a guy, who did time in prison, is <em>now<\/em> a Bible professor at Moody Bible Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I sat down with Dr. Christopher Yuan, and we had a conversation about singleness; and sexuality; and really, just identity: who we are in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>[Previous Interview]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Dr. Yuan, in your book\u2014in <em>Holy Sexuality and the Gospel<\/em>\u2014in the sections where you're speaking specifically to singles, you say that singles need to be welcomed, and valued, and loved as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. So why did you feel the need to actually say those words?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Well, I mean, it's\/you know, as an author, we write, a lot of times, from our own experience. I'm a single man. Yes; I write a lot and mostly on the issue of sexuality, focusing on same-sex attractions. As a single man, as well, I\u2019ve <em>realized<\/em> the need for the body of Christ to do a much better job in, not only ministering to those who are unmarried, but also having a healthier biblical understanding of singleness. I see that lacking, especially\u2014and there's many implications for that\u2014that when we don't have a correct\u2014I would call it a \u201ctheology of singleness\u201d\u2014that then has implications in how we <em>treat<\/em> people, who are single in the church and how we minister to them. You know, they're maybe second-best or, sometimes, if you're single, then you're viewed to be kind of immature\/you're not really there yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, they're perceived\u2014so maybe, you know, we could be putting that on ourselves through kind of, maybe, past experiences\u2014but definitely it's there. As the church, we need to recognize that, and we need to work against that. Knowing that it's there, we have to then counteract that with the correct biblical understanding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>As I was reading through your book, I kept thinking, \u201cI need to pass this off to my pastor and to my leaders at church\u201d; because, not only was it just those chapters for the singles, but your <em>entire<\/em> book felt like it was for the <em>wholeness<\/em> of the body of Christ\u2014it was for the <em>wholeness<\/em> of everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> That was my hope!\u2014[Laughter]\u2014you know, obviously, with the title, <em>Holy Sexuality<\/em>\u2014in it\u2014<em>and<\/em> <em>the Gospel<\/em>. I wrote it primarily to address the issue of homosexuality, and people who have same-sex attractions\u2014how to reach out to the gay community\u2014but my goal underneath it was to have a resource for <em>everyone<\/em>\u2014not just people who have same-sex attractions, not just for people who have a gay loved one or a son or daughter who identifies as gay\u2014but for everyone, whether you're married\u2014and I have a couple chapters on marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> There's <em>tons<\/em> of\u2014you know, we're, here, at FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>!\u2014there are <em>tons<\/em> of incredible books on marriage; and I didn't want to, kind of, redo anything that's been done well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I wanted to help us to see how we can have this beautiful understanding of marriage; but sometimes, maybe, go too far to the point where we denigrate singleness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> So that's why I also had a couple chapters on singleness, which is very important for people like myself, who have same-sex attractions, who find ourselves not yet married.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I\u2019m open to marriage, but right now I'm not; so I'm not going to be wringing my hands, thinking, you know, \u201cOh, woe is me!\u201d or wringing my hands thinking, you know, \u201cI can't do anything until I find that one person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I believe in a sovereign God\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014that knows, you know, what is best for me <em>now<\/em>. And I know, with my full understanding of that: \u201cThis is what God has for me now,\u201d and \u201cI'm going to fully live in that, as a single man, for the glory of God, living to proclaim His goodness to all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>\u2014which is <em>awesome<\/em>; which is great to hear, but it's <em>hard<\/em> to practically play that out. And that's why, as I was reading through your book, I really appreciated hearing how you said Jesus defended marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And I believe that, and you can point to several passages where you see that; but you also say He defended singleness. Now, that was a paradigm shift; [Laughter] because I can't\u2014I mean, of course, you pointed that out in Scripture; but I wouldn't have been able to pull that <em>out<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>So help us understand that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; you know, it's funny because I wasn't raised a Christian at all. I didn't become a Christian until I was in my 30s, so I didn't have really good, solid teaching from church. But also, sometimes, what can come with that is\u2014sometimes, a little bit of baggage\/a little bit of kind of this misunderstanding,\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014where we do\u2014I mean, simply, you know, when you go to church next Sunday, open up your bulletin. There's going to be what's going on today, and then what's going on during the week, and also the programs. There's going to be <em>great<\/em> programs for kids; great programs for, maybe, newlyweds; great programs for empty nesters; great program for families; etc. And then\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>\u2014maybe college and career. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I mean, that \u201cmaybe\u201d is like <em>very<\/em>, <em>very<\/em> rare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And you say, \u201cCollege and career.\u201d I think, in my book, I kind of jokingly called it the, you know, \u201cSingles Ghetto.\u201d [Laughter] Because, you know, the churches are like, \u201cI don't know what to do with singles!\u201d It doesn't matter if they're never married, or widowed, or divorced\u2014which, by the way, we <em>all<\/em> have different needs, as people, who are unmarried\u2014but usually, it's an <em>afterthought<\/em>. When you look, the implied message\u2014it might not be completely explicit; we might not say it from the pulpit\u2014but the <em>implied<\/em> message is: \u201cSingles aren't <em>as<\/em> welcome as the families and the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t come in with that understanding\u2014I came in with fresh eyes\u2014I mean, I was just this, you know: \u201cI just became a Christian! I love Jesus!\u201d I didn't really have all these sort of implied messages from the past. I just opened up the Bible\u2014I'm like, \u201cJesus Christ was unmarried!\u201d And we also miss how radically counter-cultural that was\u2014for a Jewish man\/a Jewish <em>rabbi<\/em>\u2014in first century Israel\u2014to be single; that was unheard of. So that\u2014just for us to remember that\u2014Jesus, our Savior, was unmarried while here on earth.<\/p>\n<p>And Paul\u2014who wrote most of the New Testament\u2014he, also, was unmarried. We need to realize that that message of the New Testament is not a negative message <em>against<\/em> single people; that it's this beautiful message that, if we look clearly through the Gospels, and also in 1 Corinthians, there's a really positive message of both Jesus and the Apostle Paul lifting <em>up<\/em> the beauty and the sanctity of marriage while, at the same time, lifting up the goodness of singleness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>The goodness of singleness. And you had said, in your book, about: \u201cMarriage is advantageous; singleness is advantageous.\u201d And then you talked about the <em>gift<\/em> of singleness. I've just got to say that, when I think about a gift, I think of a nice, pretty wrapped gift underneath the Christmas tree that I'm <em>excited<\/em> to open up. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> That\u2019s right; yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And then I open it up; and usually I'm like: \u201cWow! That is so incredible,\u201d\u2014the person knew <em>exactly<\/em> who I am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>The gift of singleness is <em>not<\/em> that way for a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014not like that\u2014no; it's not. Let's say you open up that gift and you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, you know, well, it's not exactly what I want.\u201d What can you do? You can replace it; you can take to the store and get something that you want; right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Re-gift it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Re-gift it, or get something\u2014you know, replace it. So gifts, as we understand it <em>today<\/em>, whether it's your birthday or whether it's the holidays\/Christmas, we think about it as, honestly, a little bit kind of more <em>me<\/em>-centered.<\/p>\n<p>When we approach God's gifts that way, as kind of this me-centered\u2014you know: \u201cSomething that I enjoy,\u201d \u201cSomething that I want,\u201d \u201cSomething I need,\u201d\u2014that kind of distorts God's gifts, because God's gifts <em>can<\/em> be hard\/<em>can<\/em> be difficult. Take, for example, the spiritual gifts. Now, I talk about in my book\u2014years ago, I thought that singleness was a spiritual gift because of the Greek word that is used: \u201ccharisma\u201d\u2014but then, as I studied more, I realized that there are other things that are called \u201ccharisma\u201d that aren't necessarily a spiritual gift. But even the spiritual gifts, which is still considered a gift, like the gift of prophecy\u2014that's <em>not<\/em> an easy gift to like!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>No; it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Read the Old Testament\u2014I mean, all that they [prophets] went through for being\u2014many that lost their life!<\/p>\n<p>So the gifts from God aren't <em>me<\/em>-centered; they're all <em>God<\/em>-centered. And they're not going to always give us kind of happy, clappy joy, or you know, just kind of this, you know, \u201cEverything feels good, and no suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Sometimes, the gifts that God gives us <em>are<\/em> suffering; but suffering can also be a gift. Anyway, having this really God-centered understanding of singleness and gifts really, really helps.<\/p>\n<p>And then, the way I pointed it is\u2014we don't really need to read more into what Paul was saying in 1 Corinthians 7:7, that he calls this a gift\u2014that it doesn't have to be, \u201cWell, what is it, exactly?\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cDoes this gift mean that I'm good at something?\u201d or \u201c\u2026that I have some type of special ability?\u201d or whatever? I mean, if you just read the text, Paul kind of just mentions it; and he doesn't really develop it. I think maybe that was intentional; because maybe he was just saying: \u201cYou know what? It's just a gift!\u201d\u2014you know? So it's just <em>good<\/em>\u2014it's good <em>for you<\/em> from God\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u2014not necessarily like good, as in the way that we think like, \u201cOh!\u201d\u2014like\u2014\u201cI <em>enjoy<\/em> it for a moment,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201c\u2026for that time.\u201d But it's something that's a <em>gift<\/em>, and it's also a gift <em>for<\/em> the church; for us to bless others with.<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That's Part One of my discussion with Dr. Christopher Yuan. We need to take a break; but when we come back, we're going to talk about singleness in the church. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>[Radio Station Spot Break]<\/p>\n<p>[Previous Interview]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. I am talking today with Dr. Christopher Yuan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yuan, I want to circle back around to the church. How can singles enter in conversation with our pastors, our leaders\u2014our married friends\u2014to start feeling <em>included<\/em> in things? How do we <em>change<\/em> that conversation?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Well, I think, because our goal is to have our church, as the body of Christ\u2014other believers, who are married and are not single\u2014for them to better be able to understand us and to minister to us. And so I think, for them to minister correctly and to love correctly, they have to have that grounded in <em>truth<\/em>\u2014that was kind of actually one of the big premises of my book\u2014was that\u2014for example, addressing the issue of homosexuality. I don't think that the problem is that we need to love more; right? That's what we hear from the world\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right; exactly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> \u201cYou need to love more: You need to love your child,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cYou need to love the gay community.\u201d That's <em>not<\/em> the issue\u2014it's, \u201c<em>How<\/em> do we love?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Is our love\u2014and how you love is determined by our truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Love is\u2014the foundation for love is <em>truth<\/em>\u2014if you're building your love on false truth, your love is not really love. Same thing with: \u201cHow do we love our single sisters and brothers?\u201d \u201cHow do we love people like us, Michelle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Well, that love <em>needs<\/em> to be grounded in truth; because if your truth is, you know: \u201cSingleness is just this temporary stage,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cAnd everyone needs to be looking toward, you know, marriage; because that's the ultimate goal in life.\u201d You know, that's not really\u2014that's a little bit of a distorted truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And I don't think that's the correct truth that we see communicated clearly in the New Testament. Well, then, your love is going to look different; right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> You're love [based on a false truth] is going to look like: \u201cI need to hook you up with somebody,\u201d\u2014you know\u2014\u201cI want to fix you.\u201d [Laughter] That's why I joke in my book, \u201cI want to <em>fix <\/em>you up with someone, because you need to be <em>fixed<\/em> of singleness!\u201d\u2014right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Exactly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> The words that we use mean something. [Laughter] So that's why I <em>think<\/em> the best way\u2014instead of telling our married friends, \u201cYou need to minister to me this way\u2026\u201d\u2014give them some good resources on singleness. Actually, what I wrote from was grounded in several good books. One was this little pamphlet written by Barry Danylak, called \u201cA Biblical Theology of Singleness.\u201d It\u2019s only like, I don't know, maybe 40 pages; and it just was so\u2014it transformed the way I look at everything, and this is even while I was a single man\u2014just how God's vision\u2014it's not just a biblical theology of singleness; it's a biblical theology of <em>family<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Old Testament, everything is the family: the tribe, the clan, blood relatives; and in the New Testament\u2014yes; you have that focus\u2014but do you know what the focus really is on?\u2014it's on the family of God\u2014<em>that's<\/em> the true, eternal family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> All our mothers, brothers, sisters\u2014that's actually temporary\u2014I mean, look at the words of Jesus; He said: \u201cWho's my brother? Who\u2019s my sister?\u201d\u2014right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And, you know: \u201cIt's the one that obeys my Father; that's my brother and sister.\u201d Actually, our most intimate relationships, here on earth and eternity, are the ones that are bound by the blood of Christ. Those are the <em>only<\/em> relationships that will shift from now to eternity\u2014those are the only ones\u2014even marriage is temporary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> There will be no marriage in heaven, no matter how you look at it\u2014Jesus\u2019 words in Matthew 22\u2014there is not going to be that\u2014but the only relationships that we have, that will carry on in eternity, are those between brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>If our married friends in the church can <em>grasp<\/em> that, I think they will be completely <em>compelled<\/em> to be able to, you know, know that: \u201cMy single sister or brother is no different than I am,\u201d and \u201cTheir calling might look just a little bit different for now; but as I can learn from them, they can learn from me.\u201d It's this really healthy understanding of what the body of Christ is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Well, and it sounds like it's the basis of truth, with some love and understanding. And the love comes through the understanding part of who everybody is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>We're all different, and we all have different <em>needs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And I was just thinking, as you were talking about the ultimate goal of marriage\u2014really, truly, that's <em>all<\/em> of our ultimate goal\u2014is the marriage supper of the Lamb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>And one day that will happen, and that will be a glorious thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; yes! Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>So Christopher, please\u2014what is the understanding of the theology of singleness?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> You know, it begins with the Old Testament, where I think a theology of singleness is closely tied to theology of family. Really, it's not really talked about much in the Old Testament; but then, when we move to the New Testament, this biblical theology <em>grows<\/em>. We see that, actually, as in the Old Testament, the people of God grew by procreation; right?\u2014having babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> And people of the New Covenant\u2014we don't grow by procreation; how we grow is by regeneration\u2014and what that means, for the single individual, is that <em>we have family<\/em>! You know, Michelle, you can be a mother as a single woman. You can have daughters and sons, that you are discipling. I mean, that ties right into the Great Commission: \u201cGo and make disciples\u2026\u2014not just \u201cGo and make converts,\u201d\u2014\u201cGo and make disciples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And those disciples are our spiritual children; and our spiritual brothers and sisters are those who <em>also<\/em> have been converted from death to life, and put their faith in Jesus Christ. Having <em>that<\/em> understanding of singleness\u2014that's tied directly into a theology of family\u2014I think, to me, has <em>so<\/em> much meaning and gives me so much <em>hope<\/em>, as a single man\u2014that, yes, I might not have physical children of my own; but I definitely have spiritual children. That's much more important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Well, and this puts a <em>great<\/em> framework around singleness. I'm almost excited now in my single state; because it puts a framework of, \u201cWe're not fighting.\u201d And I think, at times, it feels like the families or the marriages can be fighting against the single people in church. This puts a whole new framework of: \u201cWe\u2019re all shooting towards the goal of heaven and living a life consecrated to Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> Yes; and also, see, I wanted to write a book that was <em>saturated<\/em> with the gospel\u2014that everything that we could see is\u2014like, it ties right into the gospel. And this is why singleness ties right into the gospel; because I have married folks and they have<\/p>\n<p>a beautiful, you know, life, with their family and kids and raising\u2014you know? And their kids are just, you know, these bubbly, fun kids. I\u2019m like\/you know, you could get to the point, where you\u2019re like: \u201cOh, man! I missed that.\u201d But you know what? I have all this extra time to be making spiritual babies. [Laughter]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher:<\/strong> I can be having spiritual children and being with a disciple, and that's what I'm called to now! I don't know about you, but I'm excited about that and being able to do that; because that's what it's all about. It's about sharing the gospel, preaching the gospel, living the gospel; and also, that gospel is about that discipleship\u2014that it's not just, \u201cI share Christ; they become a Christian,\u201d\u2014but then, it's: \u201cHow do we now live as a Christian to pursue holiness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Right.<\/p>\n<p>[Studio]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That was my conversation with Dr. Christopher Yuan. It has been an <em>amazing<\/em> journey that God has taken him on; and through that, he encourages <em>so<\/em> many people. If you're curious about his background and about his story, go to our website,<\/p>\n<p>FamilyLifeThisWeek.com. Christopher shares his <em>entire<\/em> story in an interview with Bob Lepine and Dennis Rainey; and also, Christopher's mom, Angela, joins them.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we're going to continue our discussion on singleness, and we're going to bust some myths. Matt Perman\u2019s going to be my guest next week. Matt is the head of Career Development at King's College in New York City. I hope you can join us for that.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the President of FamilyLife, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. A big \u201cThank you!\u201d to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers, Marques Holt and Bruce Goff. 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