Dating for missionaries

Dating For Missionaries

Once they hear the message of chastity, they desire it — but without a concrete plan, they can quickly fall back into old habits. Dating Detox includes dozens of relatable stories of FOCUS missionaries, students and alumni who have successfully moved from desiring to live a chaste life to succeeding in living a chaste life. Finally, it gives the reader practical tools, habits and strategies needed to live the virtue of chastity with success and freedom. We wanted to offer them a practical tool that would help them make a lasting change. Rather than preach at the reader, our hope was to walk alongside them as they journey through the detox.

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Overseas missionary work takes years of training and fundraising, but many leave the field after a few years because they can't find a spouse. A new website launching today hopes to tackle that problem by placing missionaries and Christian expatriates into a network that enables them to find spouses in the field. The matchmaking site was initially proposed in by John Patton, chief operations officer for the Center for Mission Mobilization, and David Bilby, executive director of Go Connect an organization that connects churches with public schools. Although many leaders saw its potential, Patton said that without a fulltime advocate the project wound up on the back burner. Now, CalledTogether. Claire, a graduate from Covenant Theological Seminary who works as the site's operations director. Claire is getting married this May.

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Though dating was not part of first-century culture, the New Testament is clear that Christians should seek to marry other Christians. It is vital that spouses agree on their call to missions before they take any step toward service. Marriage and missions are both calls in the sense of God directing you to them. Practically, the question may be, which one is stronger? If a single person feels as a matter of conscience that they must set out for a mission field, dating someone who is not called in that way may be a bad idea.

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Can “Missionary Dating” Lead to a Good Marriage?

Radical trains and equips churches and followers of Christ to spread gospel hope on the front lines of urgent need among the nations. Urgent comes alongside indigenous believers in some of the hardest to reach places on earth. There, we seek to make disciples, multiply churches and provide humanitarian relief in ways that are biblically faithful and practically effective.

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