Here are five passages that stood out to me:

Married and single Christians have a different speciality focus. The married Christian specialises in pointing us towards the gloriously intimate relationship which the church will enjoy with Christ forever. The unmarried Christian specialises in pointing us towards the gloriously intimate relationships we will enjoy with one another within the church forever. We are complementary—rather than competing—co-specialists in eternity. (22)

When we carefully analyse the original text of [Matthew 19:1-12] we arrive at an unexpected, but I think inevitable, conclusion. The self-made eunuch is not a metaphor for the disciple who chooses never to marry for the sake of the kingdom, but for the divorced disciple who chooses not to remarry because of their obedience to the kingdom. (82)

In my early thirties, I twice signed up for online dating. Both times, I selected a dating platform that was geared towards Christians … However, both times, I only lasted a few weeks before I realised I needed to delete my profile and sign out. Why? Because I had found myself compulsively logging in to check if I had any new matches … Online dating made it much, much harder for me to see my singleness as anything other than something to escape from. (96)

Yes, the Reformers rightly sought to correct corrupted institutional celibacy and rediscover marriage as a good part of this creation. But in trying to make more of “mundane” marriage and less of “heroic” celibacy, the Reformers ended up making far too much of sex. They overcorrected. And we have inherited that legacy. (123)

In [1 Corinthians 7:9], Paul is not raising a theoretical situation that may or may not be relevant. No. He is specifically addressing certain individuals, namely unmarried Corinthian Christians who are actively committing sexual immorality … Paul is not saying that if an unmarried Christian doesn’t think they are cut out for long-term singleness, they are under a moral responsibility to get married. Rather, he is actively calling out unmarried Christians who are not currently exercising self-control … In its context, the verse is saying that it’s good to remain unmarried unless you are enjoying the “perks” of marriage without the actual being married part. It is better to choose marriage than to choose to remain tangled up in sexual sin. (145)

It’s a great book.