Dating 101: Practicing Divorce

What is the purpose of Dating?

Dating in our culture has been a recreational activity

Feelings, emotions, and broken heart become a game

How does that make you feel?

Proverbs 18:22 CSB

A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

What does it mean to find Favor from God?

Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Hebrew (Old Testament) 8356 רָצוֹן

acceptance, favor, i.e., a state or condition of approval, implying pleasure in the event

What Kind of relationship pleases God?

Was you last relationship pleasing to God? (or your current)

Why did you date them or why are you dating them?

When a man and women commit to a “til death do us part” relationship, God is pleased!

Does modern Dating work?

Does modern dating please God?

Genesis 2:24 ESV

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

What does that look like?

J.O.Y the formula for joy and a God pleasing relationship

J- Jesus

O- others

Y- You

What does it look like to Have Jesus first in your life?

what does it look like before and during a relationship?

Often times we get this order wrong-

we look are our wants and desire

it opens the door for selfish motives

we put the other first-

We try to make them like use, want us

What kind of relationships last?

#Truth: we Practice for divorce we when play house with each other

What is the best way to get to know someone?

What is the best way to date?

#Truth: the more you give into the relationship the more it will hurt when it ends

This is why it is so important not to jump into any and all relationships

What does God want for us?

Ephesians 5:22–33 ESV

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Eph 5:22-