Guiding Principle: Don’t stand still in your faith (run away from sinful desires and run toward God). Any relationship that does not let you pursue what is best, is not right for you.
Proverbs 4:23
The Bible tells us that the heart is the center for our spiritual and physical vitality. If we do not make efforts to protect our heart, we will bring harm to ourselves.
Guiding Principle: In any dating relationship, guard your heart and you will flourish.
Psalms 66:18
When we refuse to hear God’s voice and we follow after sin, we jeopardize our fellowship with God.
Guiding Principle: Listen to God’s voice when it comes to relationship decisions. Disobedience may bring temporary pleasure, but results in your isolation from God.
1 Corinthians 7:17-40
God has called every person for a purpose. No matter what our circumstance, we must strive to put God first. Learn to find contentment in every circumstance.
Guiding Principles: Learn to be a satisfied single before you start dating.Before you can relate to others, you must learn to live for God. Until you are at peace with God, you are not going to have good dating relationships. No relationship should hinder your service to God. If a dating relationship hinders your ability to actively serve Jesus, it is not a healthy relationship.
3. As a Christian, what should my standards be? Who should set my standards; God? Parents? Myself? Can standards vary from person to person and still be considered Biblical?
Ephesians 5:1
As we develop moral standards, they must reflect the nature of God.
Guiding Principle: Standards can vary from person to person, and to some extend even from situation to situation. When it comes to setting your standards for dating a guy or girl. Don’t settle for second best. Just do it RIGHT.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children must strive to live in obedience to their parents and honor them in their other relationships. At the same time parents must be submissive to God in their discipline and direction to children.
Guiding Principles: Parents who honor God will give you good direction when it comes to choosing someone to date and/or marry.
Honor your parents, even if they are not godly, and God will bless you in your relationships.
Proverbs 10:7; 13:13, 14:12-15; 16:2
We can not always trust in our own hearts, that is why we must seek wise council from friends, Spirit filled leaders, the Holy Spirit, and from the word of God.
Guiding Principle: When you are in a relationship, an untested heart will lead to sure disaster. The heart can sometimes lead you into destructive relationships so always find ways to test your feelings.
4. Why is premarital sex bad for me?
1 Corinthians 6:16
Sexual intimacy brings spiritual oneness.
Guiding Principles: Each time you unite your body with another person, only to break up, you loose a piece of yourself. Dating, having sex and then breaking-up destroys the bond of physical intimacy and brings heartache in future relationships.Keeping yourself sexually clean for your one marriage partner can give you greater intimacy than you will ever know.
1 Corinthians 6:17
Since the Holy Spirit unites us to Christ, we must not ally ourselves with things that are in opposition to Christ.
Guiding Principle: Sex of any kinds unites you to the other person and when you participate in sex outside of God’s design it divides you from Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 & Ephesians 5:3
We must flee from sexual impurity because our lives have been bought with the blood of Jesus Christ.
Guiding Principle: Embracing the world’s cycle of self-focused dating (dating that does not incorporate love) is a rejection of your relationship with God.
Hebrews 13:1-6
As members of the Body of Christ we must recognize that every action we take impacts other parts of the Body.
Guiding Principles: Fornication (sex before marriage) brings dishonor to the sacred value of marriage.Pre-marital sex destroys the beauty of marriage.
James 1:13-18
Love conceived brings forth joy and joy accomplished brings forth life. Lust conceived brings forth sin and sin accomplished brings forth death.
Guiding Principle: Pre-marital sex is always an expression of lust, never love. Why, because it directly violates God’s plan for our lives. Thus it will always lead to personal and emotional devastation.
Galatians 6:7
When we willfully disobey God, we bring upon ourselves the natural consequences of our sin.
Guiding Principles: When you disobey God, sometimes He will let you have what we ask for. Suxual pleasure outside of marriage can be good for a season, but it may lead to long-term dissatisfaction that will hinder every relationship in your future.
That’s all for now. In the next post, I will answer the final top questions about dating and relationships.
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