I was honored to write a two complementary posts for Sheology.co on making bold relationship choices in 2020. One is on making bold dating choices and the other is on making bold choices in your marriage. Whatever your bold relationship choices are, grace is the key. I’ve got a short excerpt of each followed by a link to the full post.
Bold Dating Choices in 2020
I’m going to make a bold statement here, but one that I think is true. Relationships today are harder now than they’ve ever been. Don’t get me wrong, relationships have always been complicated. Still, technology and the cultural changes that have accompanied them make things…messy. There aren’t really rules anymore and the ones that do exist seem to change overnight. People get married later and they have high expectations for marriage. Things are particularly rough for those who are single and want to do things right and to honor God with their relationships.
The good news is that we have grace on our side. God’s grace allows us to enter or end any relationship with confidence-no shame included. I’d like to share with you two freeing truths of God’s grace that can allow you to make bold dating choices in 2020. I learned these things the hard way in my own love story, and I want to share them with you to save you some trouble.
To read on, check out the full post here.
Bold Marriage Choices in 2020
This might be news to you, but the purpose of marriage isn’t to make you happy. It’s to make you holy, to make you more like God . God uses every marriage (no matter how good or bad) as a tool to help make us more like Him.
God is gracious to us. He gives us things we don’t deserve. In turn, he asks us to be graceful to others. Being graceful is a skill. Marriage is one of the ways God helps us to practice it. Being graceful can be hard and it takes boldness, but it’s what God calls us to. He wants us to be bold in our love. What does bold love look like?
Read the rest of the post here.
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