Dear Christian, I will go trigger-happy on that ‘like’ button if you change your relationship status to ‘engaged’ or ‘married’ on Facebook. However I won’t touch that button if you change it to ‘in a relationship’. Here’s why:
Before continuing with this article, please review “Biblical Courtship: What is it?“. My last article, “Biblical Courtship: Navigating the Early Stages,” sought to apply some of the principles we’ve discussed in this series to the early stages of a courtship. We talked about how to establish intentions for the early stages, appropriate topics of conversation, types of dates and level of emotional investment. (more…)
As Christians in a courtship, we want to avoid hurting one another and dishonoring Christ by “defrauding” (see NASB translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:6) our brothers and sisters in Christ by implying — through word or action — a higher level of commitment to that person than we have made before God. (more…)
Ladies, do you think it’s biblical for us Christian women to have boyfriends? Those who answer, ‘yes’ to that question will often provide the following reason: ‘Just because the Bible doesn’t talk about boyfriends, it doesn’t mean it’s wrong to have one. After all, the Bible doesn’t talk about driving, the internet (more…)
Have you ever thought about the belief system that underpins our girlfriend/boyfriend culture? There are many different ways people define and “do” boyfriend/girlfriend relationships but there seem to be at least 2 common beliefs that characterise what most women would mean if they said they had a boyfriend: (more…)
Many of us Christian women would love to have a boyfriend. We would love someone to cuddle up with in front of a movie on a Friday night. We would love someone to call our own. Basically we would love someone to share emotional intimacy with. Why shouldn’t we want such a relationship? Because such a relationship, biblically, should not exist outside of engagement and marriage. (more…)