WAY Nation | – What Married People Need to Know About Their Single Friends | 1000 Steps


Being single doesn’t mean you will be lonely and depressed forever. Hear two friends have an honest conversation on what married people need to remember about singleness.

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WAY Nation We live in a world that can leave us feeling angry, anxious, and broken. WAY Nation helps us wrestle with this hopelessness and replace it with love and truth. WAY Nation is a place to learn, laugh, be challenged, and be encouraged. The truth of the Gospel and the teachings of Jesus will serve as the foundation for all of our interactions. We know that hope doesn’t come from ignoring challenging topics, but from embracing and examining how the Gospel applies to them. WAY Nation equips us with genuine purpose and hope in Jesus. WAY Nation is part of the WAY Media Network. Our mission is to influence this generation to love and follow Jesus through culturally relevant media. Music. Faith. Life.

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  1. It took me so long to NOT be so obsessed with being in a relationship. Once I embraced my singleness and my grandchildren and children became my focus after JESUS who is first.. I honestly am unsure I would ever want to be married again. God would have to WANT me for a man and that man be worthy … lol but man I used to let whoever, pick me and no more:)

  2. Why do married people insist on writing books about how to be single?!
    Married person: "I was single (not dating, engaged, or married) until I was seventeen, so I am perfectly qualified to talk about singleness at all stages of life."
    Single person: "I have an idea about marriage. I've witnessed 17, 462 marriages and have developed this idea/belief from careful observation."
    Married person: "You know nothing about marriage."

  3. I totally felt and love this and it is so true. Being single in the church a lot of times feels like you are looked down upon or you feel invisible. I think that churches lose a lot of single people or a lot of single people walk away from the church because churches are all about children, families, marriages, and relationships. And if you don't fit into any of the groups you feel like an outsider amongst people that you love. Being single past thirty is hard and people do not understand or they dismiss your feelings. Its like I want to be married and have a family, but God hasn't opened that door for me yet and he may not ever. IT has taken me years to accept that and I still struggle with that from time to time. In college it got so bad and I was tired of feeling less of a person for being single so I blatantly said one day: Why do I have to be defined by my relationship status, I am happy that is what matters. Single people matter to God just as much as married people do and I wish more people would see that. Thank you for this video it lifted my heart to see and hear things that I had been noticing or thinking about for years being brought to light.

  4. I joined my church 4 years ago because they HAVE a singles ministry geared towards people my age, because, according to the "laws of society", people in their 30s are supposed to be married, and we are the forgotten demographic in the church.

  5. Such a breath of fresh air! "I am worth getting to know on my own." So good! I think that would be my chapter 2 title. My chapter 1 would have to be "Please! Stop telling me to 'embrace singleness'!" Not because singles shouldn't embrace and enjoy the season that they're in, but because telling them to embrace it is not helpful or encouraging. I feel like married people who tell singles to "embrace singleness" come off as though they never struggled with being single, they were just always content with it. I am just now learning to be content with being single, but there are still some days when it is really hard to recognize that being single is not a bad thing when you have or have had, in the past, a desire to be married. I'm not saying that I think married people shouldn't give advice on being single, but I definitely think that they need to be more tactful in the way they go about it.

  6. This video is amazing and I really wish it would be shown to the marriage ministry in churches. My Chapter 1 would be "If I had a dollar for every cliché I've heard I could pay off the church mortgage". I get that sometimes married people don't know what to say, but when I go to my married friends and express frustration about my singleness I hear "Well if you stop looking…" or "Maybe you just need to spend time with yourself…" or "God must be trying to teach you something in this season…" and other comforting statements. Like does God stop trying to teach me when I get married? Huh? I don't think that's how He works. Sometimes I just want to vent. Right now it's doubly hard trying to date due to the pandemic & I feel isolated at times. I'm allowed to feel and my feelings are valid. Being married doesn't give you a louder speaker or more rights to expressing oneself.

  7. I loved this! As a single person I so resonate with things both Jake and Betty shared. Way Nation, you guys consistently make space for meaningful conversations that meet people where they are and encourage us and I'm super grateful for that!

  8. I really liked her comments I've been single for years and I've heard everything from how come you haven't gotten married you haven't had any kids but I don't tell everybody my story at what happened, I had friends that got married and like she said they forget about you but oh when their relationship goes wrong or when they go through a divorce then they try to find you and by then I have a whole set of new friends and I have lots of single friends so I never feel like I am the only one we have common interests we travel we have conversation good subjects to talk about instead of having it always talk about kids or husband so I feel well-rounded, I have married friends and when I would run into them they were always asking me what I was up to and when I tell them so I just got back from here you know I'm going here or there you better take a trip there or I started taking a art class sometimes I think they're envious of me and at one time almost felt like they were a little jealous but I tell people don't look at my life you do you I'm happy with me you be happy with what you have because everybody's different except were you are in your life and be happy with it and live it to the fullest. I am always open to a relationship with someone I've had many but they weren't the persons that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with I remember my grandmother used to tell me everyone is not going to be married everyone is not going to have kids sometimes when you live in your life the way you supposed to live it God is a jealous God and he wants to keep you for himself and that's how I've always lived. Being single you have time to do for others and be involved in lives to help make difference and changes that if you were married and occupied with a family you would never be able to do so I think of myself as being special ordained by God to do good things.

  9. Hey I just wanted to say that God Created you and me. But we sinned and fell away from God. We broke The Ten Commandments or The Moral Law. Because of our sin we should die and go to Hell. But God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to come to this Earth. Jesus Died on the Cross to Save Us. Then He rose again on the third Day. Now we have a choice. To keep living Life the way we want or to Repent ( Turn Away From Our Sin) and turn to God. We need to get our lives right with God.

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