Christian Dating Today

Single Christians Dating and Finding Love

As Christians, we know that finding a partner with whom to share our life with is not always as straightforward as regularly attending our church, going to bible camp, or joining our church choir… It is true many have found their wives and husbands this way, but for many of us now, the landscape for finding love has changed considerably.

In ever increasing numbers, men and women are seeking help in finding a loving partner, and are turning to a multitude of singles dating services that cater to this need: speed dating, singles holidays, singles sports clubs… and the list goes on. Not least of all are the online dating services, which are plentiful.

Now, you might be asking what does this mean for us as Christians seeking to find a mate? Well there are many of these online dating services that are intended specifically for us as Christians wishing to meet other Christians. To check this out, do a search for “online dating for Christians”. Many of these online services are free, are easy to use, and importantly, they provide a very good opportunity to get to know someone over time, to learn about his, her, interests, hopes for the future, and moral temperament.

I realise some of you may consider this a strange or uncomfortable approach to finding a mate. New things often do feel this way, but it is also true that once we try and once we become familiar with a new thing in our lives, it becomes normalised over time. And is it not true that it is in having an open heart and an open mind that our world truly expands and God can do his work?

Now I am not suggesting that online dating is the only way, or that it will guarantee results for you, but can testify that there are many loving couples who were once sitting where you are now, and who met their partners this way. I am one of them. It didn’t happen overnight and it didn’t happen with the first man I started to communicate with. But within six months, I did meet my fiancé this way. That was two years ago.

Truly love can bloom in the most unexpected places. If we had been told twenty years ago that many, many Christians would find love from behind the screen of an electronic machine called a computer, how many of us would have believed it? Would our faith have been strong enough? God’s ways truly are mysterious but he never fails to deliver when we ask with a sincere heart and with complete faith. Sometimes we can doubt that God has heard our prayers. But deep down we know — he always hears, but sometimes he has to wait till we are truly ready for them to be answered.

Christine Joyce writes on Christian life and related issues. To learn more you can visit her blog:

Singles Christians Dating and Finding Love http://singlechristiansanddating.blogspot.com/

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