Dear Bessie
> Your letter touched a chord in my heart and I have been thinking about it
> most of the morning. I'm answering you on the loop because I'm not sure it
> would be appropiate for me to answer you personnelly and yet I'm feeling
> like I really need to say this to you about the dating you want to do. You
> see, my husband and I have two children, 11 yb and 13 yg. We were impressed
> by God a long time ago that instead of dating we were to encourage
> courtship. What this means is that romance waits until a time when two
> people and their parents are impressed by God that it time for these two
> young people to come together and marry because it is His will for them to
> be together and because their joining will help them better serve in His
> plan for their lives. I realize that this is probably very strange thinking
> to you but it allows young men and women to grow stronger in the power of
> Lord and to know Him better because their focus is not on the worldly
> thinking of "hmm, shes/hes cute, think I'm in love" but their eyes are
> focused on the God. They can be secure in the knowledge that when the time
> is right, God will bring their mate to them. The big thing I'm concerned
> about in dating is that it encourges dallying in romance with no real
> purpose. You will probably not marry this person so why take the time to
> get to know them, maybe mess around (or at least think about it) in ways
> you shouldn't and then go through breaking up and move on to the next one.
> Then the pattern repeats. With this kind of doing, your heart never learns
> to be really true and your mind never learns to work out problems because
> it learns to think it can just move on when the going gets rough.
You sound like you have done Ps. Ian and Joan Woods "Marriage
and Family" course. Ian and Joan have been doing this course for
years now in our Church (Ian is our Senior Pastor). They started to
go around Australia with it about five years ago.
Next he and Joan will be in Chicago to this course. If any
Rangernetters live in that area make an effort to go, it is worthwhile.
Contact me for further details.
There's a storm coming, our Storm.
PROCLAIMING GOD'S LOVE TO A DYING WORLD
Say to the captives, 'come out,' and those in darkness, 'Be free!'
Isaiah 49:9
I looked to the heavens to where God dwells
I looked into my life to see he lives there as well.
Love in Jesus
Adrian Bonham aka Morning Light
Outpost 49
Hawkesbury Royal Rangers
Windsor, N.S.W.
Australia
F.C.F. 94
http://www.summit.net.au/~founder1/
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