Regine Hunter grew up with Khadijah, Maxine Shaw was her college roommate and Kyle grew up with Overton, while on 'Friends', Rachel Green grew up with Monica, and Chandler Bing was Ross' childhood friend and college roommate. Kyle Barker and Overton Wakefield Jones and Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani.īoth shows include childhood friends living with or in close proximity to the main characters. There are two male roommates that live in the same building and spend a good amount of the shows time in the women's apartment. Khadijah and Synclaire James on 'Living Single' and Monica and Ross Geller on 'Friends.' 3. The two shows are built around two family members. Now, in reference to our TEXT …The City of Corinth was known for its immorality and for the Temple Aphrodite with its 1000 Temple Prostitute who plied the streets at night. God recognizes them as having a SPECIAL FUNCTION to perform …ī. MOVE 2: Still, the Lord says these are not to be regarded as MISFITS or HOPELESS CASES …Ī. There are also those that have experienced certain forms of physical disability that make marriage most unlikely or unwise. And there are those who mentally retarted.ĭ. There are enuchs who are so from birth.Ĭ. MOVE 1: I mean really, think about it, Single life may be necessary because of circumstances.Ī. In fact the Bible speaks highly of marriage but t speaks just as highly of a person remaining single and unmarried in Matthews 19:8-12 (Hardness of heart … all can’t receive this … to be eunuch) Mark 12:18-25 (The challenge by the Sadducee regarding the resurrection) In other words … being Single is now a Choice that many people are making it’s not a problem that is unavoidable. The 2000 Census shows that more than 27 million Americans live by themselves, about one-fourth of all household – nearly 10% of the population, with the increase in the divorce rate the increase in the age at which people first get married, and with our increasing longevity the experiene of being single is now one of the most widely shared experiences of adulthood … INTRODUCTION: ( In the beginning God created them male and female …man was to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife …STILL … PURPOSE: To motivate the Singles to affirm to others that Living Single is a Special Calling of God to a deeper level of spiritual devotion.

He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:). READ THE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 7:32 (But I would have you without carefulness. READ THE PERICOPE: 1 Corinthians 7:1-2, 32-35 ANNOUNCE THE PERICOPE: 1 Corinthians 7:1-2, 32-35 7:7-9 (I wish that all men were as I am …) Matthews 22:30 (For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God) Aphrodite (ten thousand priestess) Genesis 1:28 (And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth F6 upon the earth) Genesis 2: 22-26 (The account of the creation story) Deut 6:

7:1-24 Matthew 19:8-12 (Because of the hardness of mans heart, Moses wrote the bill of divorcement … Not all men can receive this except for who is given … enuchs who have been so from birth …) Isaiah 56:3-5 Mark 12:18-25 (Sadducees question Jesus about the resurrection and the woman married seven times … who wife will she be in the resurrection?) Philippians 4:11 (… I have learned in whatsoever state that I’m in to be content) I Cor. BIG IDEA: LIVING SINGLE IS A SPECIAL CALLING OF GOD.

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