Devotions for Dating Couples: Building a Foundation for Spiritual Intimacy Author: Ben Young | Language: English | ISBN:
B007V942PM | Format: PDF
Devotions for Dating Couples: Building a Foundation for Spiritual Intimacy Description
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE – FOR GOD?
If you are like most dating couples, you are looking for more than just a companion – you want a soul mate! The essence of a true soul mate relationship is that of deep spiritual connection. This dynamic book, Devotions for Dating Couples, offers guidance for deepening your commitment to God as individuals and as a couple. Through short chapters focused on such essential topics as prayer, simplicity, community, and purity, you will discover how to make your most important love relationships–with God and your potential mate–strong, lasting, and radiant.
Relationship experts Ben Young and Samuel Adams, authors of The Ten Commandments of Dating and The One, give user-friendly tips for nurturing your personal walk with God and enhancing your spiritual connection as a couple. As you read through the devotions each day, you will:
Become a great lover by learning to love God first
Develop the essential disciplines of a lasting relationship
Focus on the important things in life
Discover a sense of spiritual purpose and meaning
Understand that grace is not just for "beginners" – it is for you, every day
Whether you are dating seriously or engaged to be married, these daily personal devotions and weekly couple's devotions will help you discover the way to lifelong love.
- File Size: 256 KB
- Print Length: 228 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0785267492
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 8, 2002)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007V942PM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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This book will be very helpful for many, since much of it focuses more on spirituality and 'discipleship in the grind' (prayer, forgiveness, simplicity) than on theological issues (i.e., the "Calvinism" vs. "Arminianism" debate). There are, to be sure, theological assumptions made by the authors, but they tend to take a backseat, because the aim of the book is to facilitate discussion between you and your dating partner to provide opportunity for understanding and growth. When I went through this book four years ago, I was a high-church Anglican, and my then-girlfriend was a Baptist - you can't be much farther apart on the spectrum! But this book provides fairly common ground for a couple to engage each other, despite potential differences.
The book dives head-first into some issues (within the parameters of its scope), while it merely visits the outskirts of others, such as grace, which I think could have been given a more full-orbed treatment. For instance, the original Greek word for grace, 'charis', comes from the root 'chara,' (joy) and is linked etymologically to the word 'chairo' (health) and I suspect 'ma_kari_os' (blessed) and, obviously, 'eucharisto' (the Eucharist). It often means 'gift,' as it does in the first chapter of the holy apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians, and in when the 'charismata' (gifts) of the Holy Spirit are mentioned. The implications of this are delightfully helpful for our discipleship and our understanding of God, but are neither mentioned nor explored. There are a few other areas where I could raise this same complaint, but I might be asking the authors to chart out more spiritual territory for the reader than they felt needed to be covered.
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