Kristen

Also, both Jesus and Paul indicated that singlehood in Christianity is not just a preparation for family-hood. Some people are called and gifted by God to remain single– men and women alike. Our high calling is not to form families, it’s to help bring the New Covenant Kingdom of God. That Kingdom is like a spiritual family with God as our Father, Jesus our Eldest Brother, and the rest of us equal-status siblings. See Galatians 4. We are all to become “as little children” when entering the Kingdom– when Jesus spoke those words, it meant to his original audience that we were all to give up any status based on fleshly considerations, like race, wealth or gender, and enter the Kingdom with no status– only to be given the new status of “adopted sons.” Gal. 4:5. That was a term referring to the full status of an adopted person as having all the rights and privileges of a male, freeborn Roman heir. We all have that status, whether male or female, Jew or Greek, slave or free. Gal. 3:28.

It’s time for men to let go of their male-privilege interpretations and become “as little children” too.