The Lord said it is good for a man to wait to marry if he can, but also that none are good but God. I guess God has held me to celibacy for 30 years. The Lord did also say man has his own will. I'm 52. I started to read a book on strategy but its context shares views on strategic approaches to marketing, still I think I can pull some useful info to use in the context of service. Strategy may need to change over time, so, through the years. Priest are now near encouraged to marry. I'm Christian, not Catholic. It's 30 years of 'good works'. Another book I read was specifically on Celibacy and it was suggested that Secular Religions have issues with celibacy. Those include sports departments that are communal, so, involved with the community. I would figure cults are a subcategory of Secular Religions and that might be a window boundary beyond sports departments. Thanks for hearing my thoughts on such works. I do accept there is a need to be careful not to boast good works, but so many congregations are imed at building families and ensuring their kids have the best associations in the eyes of those they judge the best influences.
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Celibacy and Deliverance
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Daniel Newhouse
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Deliverance is a great movie. It's about what happens to the celibate. Been there, done that, and I don't recommend the lifestyle.
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Celibacy IS to value marriage, avoid fornication, and be single as a peer among men whom consider what they would do if they were single.
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