Marriage and dating for christians

You will see friends get pregnant accidentally, far too young; and watch as it totally stalls and redirects the course of their young life.You will know somebody who got an abortion, and you’ll see how inconsolably guilt-ridden they are about it.People don’t necessarily acquire this kind of a heart by waiting till marriage for sex; they usually have it to begin with.They decide to wait as a symptom of having a big, genuine heart.

You will find over the course of your journey that this attitude — this desire to pursue the most noble course of action — will start manifesting in other areas of your life.

And you will hear a thousand times the lamentation “I really wish I hadn’t slept with him/her”.

All of these pains and more are things that you will bear close witness to in others, but never have to endure yourself.

And this is one of the greatest benefits of waiting till marriage: you will keep the important parts of yourself alive even as you destroy or change everything else.

There’s a lot of controversy surrounding the idea of waiting till marriage for sex. But for all the people that will tell you that you’re being naive or that you’re making too big a deal out of sex, or that you’re being stupid — none of them will say that waiting isn’t .