This Momentary Marriage by John Piper
Week 11: Chapter 10 — A Final Word to Single People
Read Chapter 10 of This Momentary Marriage. Key Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 7:7–8, 32–35; Isaiah 56:3–5; Matthew 19:12.
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Piper ends his book by speaking directly and tenderly to those who are not married — not as an afterthought, but as a culminating argument that the meaning of marriage is ultimately about Christ, and Christ is equally available to all.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Piper closes the book with a direct address to single people. Why does he do this? What does it reveal about what the book has ultimately been arguing — that this is not just a book about marriage, but about what marriage points to?
2.Piper draws on Isaiah 56:3–5, where God promises the eunuch — a person excluded from the community of marriage and childbearing — a name and a memorial 'better than sons and daughters.' How does that Old Testament promise speak to people who experience their singleness as an exclusion or a lack?
3.Jesus himself was single. Piper points to this not as a minor biographical detail but as a theological statement. What does Christ's singleness say about the ultimate value and dignity of singleness? How should it shape the church's posture toward single people?
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