I dare you....

This past Sunday, my friends and I visited Westlink Christian Church on Maize road... and LOVED it. There was a guest speaker, Mark Gungor, who is an author and pastor from Michigan, I believe. He spoke on very interesting and abnormally dreaded topic: singleness and dating. I personally loved what he had to say. His sermon did many things:

It destroyed the unrealistic expectations that we have of dating and marriage.

It reminded us that it TRULY is okay to date, although most churches have indoctrinated the idea that we should put it off, and put it off, and put it off and pray for God to "deliver our spouse into our laps."

It realistically and practically looked at marriage and dating, while analyzing the social ideology that we must anxiously wait to date, which affects us and our future grand children.

It emphasized the importance of sexual purity before marriage.

and

It shocked me with information about happiness and how marriage wasn't made to make a person happy:: a person must be happy before they wed. If two unhappy, empty souls marry, its still the union of two unhappy, empty souls.

Listen to the message... I dare you. It has changed my thinking on dating.

http://media.westlink.org/message_series/iMarriage/IStillDo092610Gungor.mp3