[Read by Adam Verner]
Learn to live and date for more than marriage.
Many of you grew up assuming that marriage would meet all of your needs and unlock Gods purposes for you. But God has far more planned for you than your future marriage. Not Yet Married is not about waiting quietly in the corner of the world for God to bring you the one but about inspiring you to live and date for more now.
If you follow Jesus, the search for a spouse is no longer a pursuit of perfection but a mutually flawed pursuit of Him. He will likely write a love story for you different from the one you would have written for yourself, but thats because he loves you and knows how to write a better story. Trust him, and he will help you find real hope, happiness, and purpose in your not-yet-married life.
Not a dating manual, not at all This book will appeal especially to those in their late teens and upward. Don’t expect it to be a guide to better dating or anything like that. It has a strong Christian emphasis and even has the nerve to suggest that marriage isn’t for everyone. Our goal as Christians, according to the author, must be to be more like Jesus and to be first a one of his devout followers. This will be strong meat for some who assume a “hapjpily ever after” is or should be our foremost goal…
Not Yet Married “Not Yet Married” by Marshall Segal is a good title for anyone who wants to find more joy in their current singleness. The book is around 200 pages and addresses such topics as:
More than a mere dating book This is by far the best book on dating that I’ve read.