Singleness article

A brother who has recently been "un-singled" (i.e. started courting someone) sent out this article (which was encouaraging b/c often those who "move on" to that stage of life seem to have amnesia about their former life as singles):

http://matthiasmedia.com.au/briefing/library/5571/

Notable quote: "I think he would see this epidemic of loneliness as a major moral failure of the church to be the church, and, perhaps, more particularly, a moral failure of families to treat those not in their family as family. The church is a family, and we are to treat those in the church as family—not by lowering the standard with which we treat our family, but by raising the standard with which we treat others. For this ideal to become a reality, I suggest that our thinking and action proceed along two lines—firstly, in the habits of families and secondly, in the structure and design of our churches."

There are lots of other good points in the article. Thanks JK for sending it out.