Why Dating Is Not Working |Herbert Cooper - Audio

Dysfunctional: Why Dating Is Not Working <br><br> Romans 12:2 “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” (NLT) <br><br> There’s the world ways and there’s the words way <br><br> 4 Ways Of The World <br><br> 1. If you’re not dating something is wrong with you <br><br> 1 Corinthians 7:38 So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better. (NIV) <br><br> 2. Dating someone is going to make me whole <br><br> 3. Dating is purely for fun  <br><br> 3A. You date people who are not Christ followers <br><br> 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? (NIV) <br><br> 3B. You engage in sex <br><br> 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; (NIV) <br><br> 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. (NIV) <br><br> 4. You overlook the warning signs  <br><br> 4 Ways Of The Word <br><br> 1. Have a dating plan  <br><br> Psalms 20:4 May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. (NIV) <br><br> 1A. Plan for when you will start dating <br><br> 1B. Plan for who you will date <br><br> 1C. Plan for how you will date <br><br> 1D. Plan for the physical  <br><br> Song Of Solomon 2:7 Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and wild deer, not to awaken love until the time is right. (NLT) <br><br> 2. Go slow and get to know  
Matthew 7:16-20 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree