“We have to take care that we do not combine our historical Protestant antipathy for the excesses of ascetic monks with our modernist compromises with every current sexual gospel, and then as a result conclude that the Bible could not possibly commend a life of celibacy. Most modern evangelicals know that the apostle Paul was gifted with celibacy, but this is seen as a personal thing (kind of a ‘Paul’ thing) and certainly not intended as a subcultural movement within the faith. This is why we rush to categorize people as ‘singles,’ and we quietly assume them to be sexually marooned, not sexually dedicated” (Fidelity, pp. 115-116).
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