This is a tail end of a question
that I had about singleness, why Paul actually said it was
better for a person to remain single, and usefulness of being
single in the local church. After the question was answered,
a small conversation about a woman's role, should it be that she stays
with her father, or gets a job, or works in ministry, or goes
to college, etc. So there are a few thoughts here
that I found or thought would be beneficial. You know, so to
recap that, all that is commanded of us in Scripture, singleness,
especially youth, it is the perfect time to really invest in that. Perfect time for sanctification,
perfect time for growth, perfect time for preparation for service.
Because it all does change. I mean, it changes when you get
married and you think, oh wow, this is great, but it ties you
down in some ways too. You can't just get up at three
in the morning and go down to the club and preach. You do that? Oh yeah. Shopping
centers and laundromats, you preach at laundromats at two
in the morning, they're full. They're really weird, it's full.
I don't know if they're doing clothes or selling drugs or whatever,
there's people there. You can't do that. And then when you have
kids, you think you've got your life in order and then a kid
comes along, you're like, I wanna die, I wanna die. I don't know
what to do. I was wanting kids since I was
like 15. I just can't wait to have 10 kids. And I can't believe
Robin married me after I told her that. She thought I was being
funny. I didn't. I wanted ten kids. But after
they come, there's just a whole nother, it's a whole nother responsibility.
But no, I don't believe that, I don't believe what you said
earlier, and I know people like that, I meant to speak to this,
who think that a woman should stay with her daddy until some
man comes to rescue her from the house. And I have dear friends
who believe that. So to the point, they won't let
their children be educated. past their high school trivium. I'm not going to say to one person
that your conscience bears witness to that. That's fine. Just don't
push it on me. Don't push it on me because my children are
going to go to college. But if you decide that's not what you
want, that's fine. But there comes a fine line between this
is what the God of heaven teaches and this is what we think we
should do. Because I mean, No, I think that's absurd to count
that as a rule. But you know, at the same time,
I mean, I'm very hardline when it comes to what my children
are gonna do in the sense of dating and courtship, and until
they're grown, they're gonna do it my way. You see what I
mean? And after they're grown, that's
their business, and they'll suffer the consequences of disobedience,
even when they're grown. I'm not going to tell them that
their job, that my daughter's job is to bear children and be
a wife if God has called them to singleness. Because God calls
some people to singleness for a season and some people to singleness
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