Worth the Wait: Churchy vs. Saved
So I've been talking to some people about dating lately. My general stance on dating and being a Christian is that they don't mix. Now this is my personal belief. If you're saved and you think it's cool and you can handle "emotional shopping" then do you. Not for me. Now some may see my reticence as residue from old hurts, and they'd be partly right. But not the way they would think. Old hurts have led me to research God's view on dating, as revealed in His word. And what I found out is that God doesn't really talk about dating. He talks about being a saved woman or man, and a married woman, man, and couple. Any semblance of what we consider today to be dating or courtship, was a man approaching a young woman's father, asking his permission to marry his daughter, and then proceeding to marry her. Any direct advice we have been given falls under not being unequally yoked (2 Corinthians 6:14), and how to love and treat one another as ...