It is essential to seek the Lord's guidance when it comes to finding a potential spouse, as this will help you avoid playing the dangerous and often useless dating game. It is important to ask for grace, wisdom, and patience when meeting someone of the opposite sex. Love for Jesus and the desire to live according to God's will should be the foundation of any relationship. The Christian approach to dating should be altered depending on your age and spiritual maturity.
A single man in his twenties should approach Christian dating differently than a 45-year-old single woman. There are clear commandments and principles in the Bible that should always shape your approach to Christian dating (e.g. don't marry an unbeliever, don't be friends with the world, don't have premarital sex, flee from sexual temptation, etc.). Christians should view dating differently from the world, which promotes sexual impurity and immorality.
This often causes single Christians to despair and date someone just to have sex within the confines of marriage. So does biblical dating exist? If so, what is it? How can Christians think differently about this pervasive topic in media and culture? How are we doing so far? Even if a Christian is dating a believer, they need to be aware of the other person's relationship with God. While Christians can participate in dating, there is no biblical promise or guarantee that every Christian will have a spouse. Although these Christians may still date with the intention of finding someone to marry, there is still a chance that they will remain single for part or all of their lives.
In the midst of this overwhelming sea of methods and rules, many Christians wonder what the Bible says about this much discussed topic and how they should approach dating. The Lord is not pleased by the casual dating scene from which professing Christians find themselves immersed and with which they are apparently quite comfortable. Biblical dating assumes a context of spiritual responsibility, as is true in all other areas of the Christian life. Christian dating advice should look very different from the biblical commandments clearly stated in Scripture.
