This is a truly terrible article. Filled with strawmen. Point #2 about contentment in the situation God has put you in is good, but at 3 sentences long it is by far his shortest point, and doesn’t get fleshed out at all. Point #5 on Paul’s use of gifts in the rest of 1 Corinthians is really bad, because the way Paul uses gifts completely contradicts his point. Take the gift of hospitality for example. Paul doesn’t say that because you are being hospitable to someone, you automatically have this gift. That’s ridiculous. In fact, what Paul says, taking the Bible as a whole, is that all Christians are called and commanded to practice hospitality, but some are uniquely gifted by the Holy Spirit in this practice, and able to do it especially well, for the building up of the body. The correct application of this to singleness is that all Christians will have at least a period of time in which they are single, some longer and some shorter, but only some are gifted by the Holy Spirit with the gift of singleness.
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