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DYNAMIC SINGLES
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Pause for prayer
Time to reflect
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Masaya ba ako?
Fulfilled ba ako?
What is my direction in life?
How is my relationship with God?
Am I involved in the lives of Christians?
Involved ba ako sa mga lost souls?
Theme verses
His divine power has given us everything
we need for life and godliness through our
knowledge of him who called us by his own
glory and goodness. Through these he has
given us his very great and precious
promises, so that through them you may
participate in the divine nature and escape
the corruption in the world caused by evil
desires. – 2 Pet 1.3-4
Theme verses
With this in mind, we constantly pray for
you, that our God may count you worthy of
his calling, and that by his power he may
fulfill every good purpose of yours and
every act prompted by your faith. – 2 Th
1.11
Theme verses
His divine power has given us everything we need
for life and godliness through our knowledge of him
who called us by his own glory and goodness…
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that
our God may count you worthy of his calling, and
that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose
of yours and every act prompted by your faith…
‘Power’ in these verses
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From the Greek ‘dunamis’=power/working
Shows that God holds power for us
God is the source of dunamis (dynamic power)!
Want to be a dynamic single?
A dynamic single relies on the ‘dynamo,’ the
unlimited power of God!
DYNAMIC SINGLES
A special teaching workshop
Aug 2007 Calamba, Laguna
Rolan & Weng Monje
Extra challenge
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Col 1.11
Eph 1.19
Rom 15.13
Eph 3.16
2 Pe 1.3
Study out power
(dunamis) in these
passages at home
Today we’ll look at three ‘keys’ to
becoming dynamic singles.
Let’s look at the theme verses again
His divine power has given us everything
we need for life and godliness through our
knowledge of him who called us by his own
glory and goodness.
POWER OF GOD  everything we need
Imagine the power of God…
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What are some powerful things God did?
All of it to meet our needs
Not all our wants
Alam niya lahat ng needs natin (mas alam
pa niya, kaysa sa sarili natin)
• God wants us to fulfill our deepest needs
KEY #1
We have a dynamic God
who wants to meet our
deepest needs.
Today singles find fulfillment in…
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Work
Earning money/developing a business
Friendships
Love interests/relationships
Hobbies/crafts/sports
Sexual encounters/affairs
Family
Various forms of entertainment
Fulfillment as a single Christian
• Depends highly on your relationship
with God
• Does not solely depend on the things
that the world looks at, even if those
are important
• Is the same level of fulfillment as a
campus disciple or as a married
disciple
Second-class ba ang mga singles?
• Siyempre...hindi
• Just as marriage is a gift from God, so is
singleness for life (cf Mt 19.12)
• Both married people and single people have
challenges
• It was wrong (in some church settings) that the
challenges for singles were highlighted and the
challenges for marrieds were not; similar
imbalanced presentation, joys of marriage vs. joys
of singlehood
• If you are generally unhappy as a single,
you will generally be unhappy as a married
person – paraphrased from Dr. Harold Sala
• Point: unless you work on the most
important things, getting married will not
make you happy!
With this in mind, we constantly pray for
you, that our God may count you worthy of
his calling, and that by his power he may
fulfill every good purpose of yours and
every act prompted by your faith.
POWER OF GOD  good purposes,
faithful acts
Key #2
We have a dynamic
God who puts in us
good purposes.
Why does the church exist?
• Because Jesus desired it (Mt 16.16-18)
• Because God owns her (Acts 20.28)
• Because the Church is the fullness of
Christ (Eph 1.23)
MMCC Mission-Vision
• Mission
We are a church of disciples devoted to
loving God, loving others, and making
disciples of all nations
• Vision
For all men to be saved and to come to a
full knowledge of the truth
Let’s talk about dating with this biblical
mindset.
MOTIVATION
Remember our motivation:
• Main reason = encouragement (Ro 1:12,
15:5; 1 Th 5:11; Heb 10:25). In time, going
on dates may lead to looking for a partner for
life. Basta, everything done with a spiritual
mindset (See 2 Cor 5:16)
• Dating is only one of many ways to
encourage someone of the opposite sex (See
Heb 3:13)
CAUTION
Rom 12.1-2a NLT And so, dear brothers and
sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies
to God. Let them be a living and holy
sacrifice—the kind he will accept. When you
think of what he has done for you, is this too
much to ask?
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this
world, but let God transform you into a new
person by changing the way you think. Then
you will know what God wants you to do..
How dating ends
Successful steady dating ends up in two ways:
1. MARRIAGE
2. BREAK-UP
How Christian dating ends
1. MARRIAGE
2. BREAK-UP
Both are successful because you don’t end
up marrying someone not for you, or
marrying when you’re not ready!
Anyway, you are brother and sister before
you are boyfriend and girlfriend.
A closer look at 2 Cor 6.14-15
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.
For what do righteousness and wickedness
have in common? Or what fellowship can
light have with darkness?
What harmony is there between Christ and
Belial ? What does a believer have in
common with an unbeliever?
Saan ba galing ito?
• Remember, the NT was written with an OT
foundation
• Look at Dt 22:10-11
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked
together.
Do not wear clothes of wool and linen
woven together.
Spiritual & practical direction
• Lev 19:19 “ ‘Keep my decrees.
“ ‘Do not mate different kinds of animals.
“ ‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of
seed.
“ ‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds
of material.
Historical example - Israel
Ex 34:16 And when you choose some of their
daughters as wives for your sons and those
daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they
will lead your sons to do the same.
Dt 7:3-4 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give
your daughters to their sons or take their
daughters for your sons, for they will turn your
sons away from following me to serve other gods,
and the LORD'S anger will burn against you and
will quickly destroy you
Historical example - Solomon
1Ki 11:2-4 They were from nations about which
the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not
intermarry with them, because they will surely
turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless,
Solomon held fast to them in love.
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and
three hundred concubines, and his wives led him
astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his
heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully
devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of
David his father had been.
Do not be ‘heterozugeo’
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Heterozugeo = to put together in mismatch
KVJ …be ye not unequally yoked
NRSV …do not be mismatched
Darby …be not diversely yoked
NASB …Do not be bound together
There is a spiritual and practical reason for
this command from Paul!
Remember
• God has good purposes for you
• You have been specially made and
specially chosen for those purposes
• Walang ibang makakagawa nitong mga
layunin na ito para sa atin!
Pause muna for Q & A
With this in mind, we constantly pray for
you, that our God may count you worthy of
his calling, and that by his power he may
fulfill every good purpose of yours and
every act prompted by your faith.
POWER OF GOD  good purposes,
faithful acts
Key #3
We have a dynamic
God who works
through faithful acts.
Faithful acts
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Not limited by spiritual age
Not dependent on wealth or talent or looks
Not dependent on level of leadership
Can be done even if you’re weak or
struggling
• Don’t have to be acknowledged or
commended
• E.g.: Kirk, Cynthia, Mike, Tess, Fiona
Faithful acts
• Glorify God, because the dunamis is not
from ourselves, but from God
• Build up the church, because we get to
inspire each other
For personal study
(addtoyourlearning.com)
• Study out the article “Divine Romance” by
Rommel Casis
• Study out the “Immorality” powerpoint by
Rolan Monje
• Study out the article “Christian Dating” by
Dave Eastman
In closing, God’s power is for…
• Meeting needs
• Good purposes
• Faithful acts
Conclusion
• God is a dynamic (dunamis) God!
• His power is there for us, his beloved.
• Let’s glorify God by seeing that his
power is for our providence, for good
purposes, and for faithful acts
DYNAMIC SINGLES
A special teaching workshop
Aug 2007 Calamba, Laguna
Rolan & Weng Monje
Interactive d-group time
• Round 1: Share one thing that impacted you
about the lesson
• Round 2: Share about a time in your life
when God worked to meet a need (any
need) in your life
• Round 3: Share to the person on your right
your faithful vision for them (e.g. “Bro/sis, I
believe that you ____ / nakikita ko na ikaw
ay…)