I’ve been preparing for a class on “dating” for some Jr High students and so the issue of Christian Dating has been on my mind lately. What is it? Is it even a viable subject? Is there enough about “it” in the Bible to even warrant a conversation? (of course there is silly, I told myself) It’s such an interesting academic subject, but for most, if not all of us, it’s not only academic. This is an area, like parenting, that we don’t talk about much in the church, and also like parenting, it needs more discussion. In fact, as with many things in life, the ideas that are currently en vogue for the dating scene nowadays have been heavily influenced/perpetrated by today’s generation of parents (no, not necessarily you…but maybe you…!). But we digress, we all hear constantly it seems that we “Christians” are failing in marriage as much if not more than secular America, and it is I think a logical assumption that “Christian dating” is also experienceing a similar downward spiral, so what can we about it? Well, to quote the Animaniacs, “the same thing we do every night Pinky,” but in our case, we got to the Word of God. I found an article written by Scott Croft, who is an elder at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington D.C., of which Mark Dever of 9Marks ministries notoriety. Well, I knew that Capitol Hill was a solid church and gave his article, which is only an introduction to the topic, a read. It was very interesting and I hope you’ll take the time to give it a quick read, it will at the very least prompt the “the grey cells” as Poirot was wont to say, into activity. Click here to link to the article ~ Geoff