DATE ACCORDING TO STANDARD

Dating is not marriage.It is not a time to sleep together.It does not grant anyone licence to start living together as husband and wife.It is not a season of staying out late at night with your man or woman.Nor is it a time of hanging around streets and corners of the road for people to notice you and make mockery of your relationship or your religion.

Dating is a time to talk together,pray together,plan together,study yourselves,match yourselves,consider your ways make up your minds,count the cost,set goals,look unto God for his approval and provision.It is an important time in the life of the singles and must be taken seriously.

The dating standard of joseph and mary ,the mother of jesus in matthew 1:18-25 is of mgreat example to the singles in our time.If you read that scripture very well,you will discover that joseph was a just man (righteous man),and he did not commit fornication with mary before they came together (got married).This is how it ought to be in the lives of  true children of God.They must receive grace to live the standard set for them by our heavenly father.Anything short of it is not accepted by him.May he strengthen us always to be chaste and self control in jesus precious name,amen.  Holding Hands, Holding Hearts: Recovering a Biblical View of Christian Dating ,What Women Wish You Knew about Dating: A Single Guy's Guide to Romantic Relationships