Single Ladies, C.L.A.P Your Hands - Celebrating Life Always Praising
New book puts the focus on praising God, not on marital status
Why Christians Need to Wait for God Before Saying “I Do”
New book puts the focus on praising God, not on marital status
2008-09-26
LONGWOOD, FL-Christian men and women often vacillate between desiring to live in marriage, as society often expects, or remaining single, with its consequent personal struggles and societal stigmatizations. In Erika R. Godfrey's Single Ladies C.L.A.P. Your Hands - Celebrating Life Always Praising (paperback, 978-1-60647-759-5), the author reveals that the modern-day church has not been too progressive in helping singles provide a Christian witness in a world of marital expectations. With more than 66 percent of marriages ending in divorce, and more than half of the people who are currently marrying doing so for at least the second time, few Christians are eager to enter into this noble institution. The author hopes to cultivate a strong desire in readers to have a relationship with God. As readers develop this desire for God, they will be married to Him and will be obedient to His will-which, she says, is more important than being focused upon our worldly marital status.
Says Godfrey, "My book is newsworthy because society has a tendency to make single Christian women feel inadequate, when in essence Christians need to wait for God before they say, 'I do,' and while waiting they need to know to praise God."
A resident of Vallejo, California, Godfrey is a single woman who has never been married and has taught the single women's ministry at her church for the past five years. In waiting for God, she has discovered that "He is always good and worthy of all of our praise, no matter what our marital status is," she says.