I don't have a problem as far as wondering if I am sinning as a single but I do have a problem with Albert Mohler's commentary on the subject.
Is Singleness a Sin?
by Camerin Courtney
August 11, 2004
In a moment of melodrama a couple years ago, I joked with a single friend that at times voices within Christendom have been so silent or so judgmental about singleness, that I suspected they thought the s-i-n at the beginning of the word was no mistake.
Now, unfortunately, one Christian leader has made that bit of humor-laced conspiracy theory a reality. At Joshua Harris's New Attitude Conference for singles this past January, Dr. Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, said:
"I'm going to speak of the sin I think besets this generation. It is the sin of delaying marriage as a lifestyle option among those who intend someday to get married, but they just haven't yet. This is a problem shared by men and women, but it's a problem primarily of men."....
I think the point he was making was that what he sees as a delaying of marriage for worldly gain - or material things.
Just as with the original post - we're just getting a portion of something he said - rather than the whole of his words...
I come from the most (well ALMOST most) fundamental of independent Baptist backgrounds. The one thing we learned was that not ALL are called to be married.
All I can think of that he's saying is that he feels that many are called to be married - but would rather stay single for selfish reasons.