last sunday was the third sermon on the song of songs series in kl wesley methodist church. so far, the turnout has been around 120 persons each evening (in spite of the rainy weather). some people, I heard, came for the morning regular services as well as for the evening services to hear the series. these faithful people have been most interested in what the book has to say about love, marriage etc. i found many of them to be singles. perhaps what drew them to the series was the question 'has the bible especially the song of songs anything to say to single people?'
i touched a bit on this issue yeaterday evening. even though the book is about romantic love between couples, anyone can still read the song of songs. i take a typological approach to the book - that the love between the ideal couple is a type of the love between God and us. hence, there is a deeper significance that we can discover when we read the book. for singles, they can still read the song of songs and understand how God loves us that much.
this coming sunday is the last sermon on chapters 7-8. i will probably say a little more on the issue of singleness and move on to summarize the whole book. as i worked through the individual verses of the 8 chapters, i am gathering materials for my next book 'song of songs made simple' in the 'old testament made simple' series. hopefully, time permitting, i can get the book out early next year.
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