(ChurchLeaders) In a recent question and answer session at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA, pastor John MacArthur said that single men ought to see themselves as the saviors and redeemers of the women who will become their wives, arguing that men save women from an unfulfilled life by marrying them.
MacArthur’s words came in response to the question of a young man named Ben. “I have a question regarding 1 Corinthians 7. So I’ve noticed that many of my brothers and I — all of us meet the 1 Corinthians 7 prerequisite. We are wrestling with God and searching out a woman to potentially be a helpmate,” Ben said.
In the passage that Ben referred to, the apostle Paul instructs the Corinthians that being unmarried allows Christians to devote themselves more fully to ministry but concedes that it would be better to marry than to “burn with passion.”