This article is a summary of Alexander’s lecture?Sasha? Mendes spoke at the Interactive Faithful Youth Conference 2020.
What’s your source of life tips?You know the right answer you learned during the Christian journey: the Bible, she talks about everything. And if he talks about everything, what do you talk about meetings, and what are dating?So let’s start with some definitions.
- Courtship is the relationship period that involves two people of the opposite sex in order to prepare them for marriage.
- Is an absent term in the biblical vocabulary and is therefore a more recent natural convention.
- So we must think about it from a biblical perspective.
- Point of view.
There are implications for this definition. First, appointments occur between two people of the opposite sex; secondly, there is a mutual objective that involves the exclusivity and skills of the people involved; this is a very important but very neglected aspect: courtship is not marriage.
We are often surprised by things we should already know about relationships. Therefore, we must try to minimize these surprises. Six things in particular are the most surprising: sin; conflict, perhaps strange when one remembers the walks in the park; Slow change Gender issues The relationship between spouses and in-laws; and the high price of forgiveness. We must equip ourselves with what God offers to minimize these surprises.
Some decrees of God cannot be known until after their arrival. But there is a way to know God’s decrees through His commandments. In these we may be on the outside, as holiness, gratitude. But all that has been revealed is for us (Deut 29:29) and for our building, to help us on our way. We often focus too much on things that have not been revealed to us, such as what we will work with or marry, when we should focus on loving the Lord and being responsible for what has been revealed to us in His word. .
In the light of Romans 8. 28, under this plan of God that has been revealed to us for our obedience and hope, we must analyze the aspects of courtship; sometimes, looking at this verse, we see it from the point of view of our lusts. If something goes wrong in our lives, we tend to become heroes of history and think it wasn’t “god’s best thing for us. “In fact, we must look at this truth and, looking around, know that God and His plan is the best we can have.
How do we understand that everything is okay together? We must recognize the fallen condition of creation and know that we will suffer the consequences, sometimes we are surprised that this reality is evident to us, but it is a fact that we will suffer to live in a fallen world, but it is also a “that the sufferings of the present time cannot be compared to the glory that is revealed in us?”(Rom 8:18). Identification with Jesus is not only because of the glories of Christ that await us, but we must also expect the same sufferings. Christ Jesus.
But not only that, Romans 8. 23 also tells us to wait for redemption, this whole state around us leads us to believe that we were not designed for this, and we await the consumption of our salvation with hope (Rom. 8. 24-25) in something right, and this must nourish our hearts. We must humbly trust in the sovereign God while living faithfully for the holy God (the sovereign God and the holy God are the same God).
We must ask ourselves: does our conception of dating come from a vision of the reality around us based on scripture?God now coordinates all things (remember Romans 8. 28), including his assistance, to conform him to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ. But when things exceed our expectations, we despair. Now, what are we waiting for?Our decisions will only be faithful if they are guided by the light of God’s sovereignty.
We value the events of life based on what we believe. If, for you, living is a romantic experience, then being single is death. And this can lead one to wonder if his supposed life before God was worth it. is Christ, then dying will be a gain. Your faith must shape your vision of reality, your beliefs, your values, and your commitments, so that you can live a life that has the ultimate goal of glorifying God, whether you are married or not. .
God doesn’t shut up. His Word provides principles that change the way we see everything around us, including our courtship. And if the Word does not guide this field, it will be misunderstood. When we do not understand God’s greatest plan in history, to model ourselves to Using the character of Christ all that surrounds us, we make mistakes and see courtship as a source of satisfaction and pleasure, or as an achievement of his romantic idealizations, or as another to his idealized standard.
This can’t be your life or the ultimate end of your encounters. Your life must be (and still be) Christ! With a distorted vision like this, marriage will be a sea of surprises, and you won’t be ready to face it, with this vision, death, for you, will be when the groom/a is not up to expectations. tells a bigger story. If we lose sight of this story, we will experience a tragedy. Recognize that your assistance is one of the ways God fits the image of Christ.