Dating outside your faith

The church has reached a difficult crossroads when it comes to pre-marriage romance.We no longer have rituals of courtship and arranged marriage to guide us every step of the way. It's also spawned a whole range of opinions and advice on how to handle dating." (No, that wasn't a suggestion for you to set up an arranged marriage.) For the Hebrews and the early church, dating wasn't an issue to be addressed in Scripture. When the Bible was written, a person basically had one of three options: remaining single, an immoral life with multiple partners or prostitutes, or an arranged marriage.There were courtship rituals in place, but nothing that looks like what we consider dating today.See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights.

Before that, strict courtship rituals governed the path to marriage.Some Christians take a lot of comfort in the idea that God will do the heavy lifting when it comes to dating.God will tell them if a relationship is right, and God will end it if it's not.Once they've done that, God increases his sustaining presence.I'm not saying that God doesn't have a will regarding your dating life.