I find it one of the great mysteries of the modern church. It does not exist in every context and every congregation, but as I’ve traveled and inquired, I’ve become convinced it exists in a great many of them. Here is the mystery: A lot of churches have many single men and many single women who wish to be married, but are not marrying one another. There are lots of single Christians but not a lot of weddings.
Greg Morse recently wrote an article for Desiring God titled Go Get Her: To Men Delaying Marriage which spurred me to think and write about this subject. Morse’s article is an urgent call to young men to stop delaying and instead begin pursuing a wife. But as much as I generally appreciate what Morse says, there is another side to the issue that I consider equally important: From what I have observed, young women may not be a whole lot more eager to marry than young men—at least, to marry the young men who are available to them. Hence, both young men and young women in our churches apparently want to be married, but in many cases,
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