Does God have a purpose in singleness? If marriage is good, and I want to be married, why am I not? Singleness is obviously very common . Many people are single. Why is God’s design for those who are single?

What is God’s design for gender. Our biological sex is either male or female. But gender is not sex. Gender is an internal personality that externally expresses our sex. Gender has a myriad of expressions. But what does God say about it?

Paul’s gospel is intentionally organized to show that Jesus is God and that we can have life in him. In this gospel, we learn through the feeding of the 5,000 and Jesus’s appearance to his disciples after his resurrection, that Jesus invites us to be a part of a Heavenly Potluck. He is the bread and will always provide for us. He also guides us to join with him in providing for those around us. He has given to us in abundance, so go and “feed his sheep” with the abundance he has given!

What is God’s design for gender? Or should we say, our sex? Either way, God cares, and He has a good design for us. What is it? 

The reason we believe we are here on this earth gives us the lens for how we interpret all of life. So what is God’s Design for our life? Who does He say we are? Why does He say we are here? 

Every Easter, as Christians we celebrate that Jesus is alive. But why does that matter? Has it become commonplace for us today? Why does the resurrection matter to us today?

We all believe in someone or something to tell us what is true, what is right, how to live our lives. What we believe to be our ultimate authority tells us how to live among and with others, how to identify, how to be a sexual being. What or who do you believe in to be your authority?

There is perhaps no more relevant, pressing, controversial, and challenging conversation than around our design as humans, our sexuality, our relationships. We want to spend the next several weeks asking what is God’s Design for us? But first, let’s talk about why we are talking about this, and how we will talk about this.

We grow up and we fall down, but God is leading the way showing us everything we need to learn.

As humans, we imitate who or what we like, appreciate, value. It is in our nature. Sure, we create some original things along the way. But we never really stop imitating either. Much of how we live flows downstream of who or what we imitate. John writes a short, but powerful letter to Gaius, encouraging him to continue imitating what is good, and not evil. For that which is good is from God.