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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Should dating couples really do devotions together. Thread starter Lizzi4Christ Start date Jun 1, Jump to latest Follow Reply. Sort by date Sort by votes. Lizzi4Christ I'm worth waiting for. Feb 13, 6, 39 It doesn't matter My boyfriend and I don't do devotions together. We talked about it and decided not to do them.
Each of our relationship with God is the most important thing. Before our relationhip with each other, we need to keep that relationship with God first and foremost. By doing devotions together, a couple becomes closer. I don't think I've seen a couple who have done them and haven't although, there most likely have been some.
Is it wise to become close like that to a person christian you don't know if you'll be married to? At first, I didn't like the thought of that. I downright hated it. But as I though about it, I think it makes sense. When I get married, I want to have that spiritual closeness with my husband and only with him.
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I don't want to have shared that with any other guy, no matter how much I cared about him or even if I loved him. Even though we don't do devotions together, we do talk about spiritual things and talk about beliefs and doctrine and sometimes pray together. I'm talking about actual devotions. What do you think? More options. Singin4Him Here I am Lord, send click here So many Christian couples thing in order to keep God first in their relationships they need to have devotional times and prayer times together but this just isn't true at all.
Like dating said, if you are keeping God first in your personal relationships christian you will be keeping God first in your relationship as a couple. Many ministers say that prayer between a couple is more intimate than sex and being married I can tell you this is true, it is the most intimate thing you can do together. This can be dangerous in a dating relationship because the prayer and devotional time can turn quickly into for excuse to be alone couples and grow in intimacy and that intimacy can quickly result in sexual immorality.
Upvote 0. KristianJ What's in a name? Lizzi, before I give my view, let me continue reading that I'm unsure whether you mean dating couple specific devotions or general devotions like Morning and Evening Spurgeon Personally I would not see a problem with it as for as it took the place of your personal devotion time.
I wholeheartedly agree that to foster the most godly relationship with your SO, your personal times need see more happen. But there is, I believe, a good purpose in occasionally talking about youe beliefs, doctrine and the like, but having it more formalised with a devotional guide. Perhaps if you're doing the same devotional series it can be good to couples about issues that you thought about and the God moved you devotions act upon once a week.
Then you can know things that you can be praying about for them, and be able to offer your own perspectives, hence working together to enrich your understanding of God's word, christian where christian partner is in their walk with God. But I dating see the closeness that results from these times as anything different from any other "together" activity - IMHO, regardless of what you're doing, courting is gonna bring you and your SO closer together.
Also, I don't see any harm in a short prayer time each time that you go out or spend time together, be it at the beginning of a time when you're committing the next few hours to God, or at the end of it to thank God for the time you were able to spend together. But in the end, to keep God at the for of the relationship does require a personal commitment to spending time in the Lord's presence.
However I don't see harm in supplementing this with activities that are sheila ortega onlyfans around getting to understand God's word better, should it be going to church together, talking about issues relating to your SO's spiritual growth and maturity, or praying together for a short period.
And I think that if both people were strong enough in their maturity, they would be self-disciplined enough to not let any sort of intimate longings or temptations grab hold.
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Just my 2 cents though. Lizzi4Christ said:. Click to expand To be perfectly honest, my boyfriend and i don't do devos together because we're long distance and we just don't come up with the best discussions off of some fill-out worksheet type of devo. I also think that worshiping 1 on 1 together is in the same boat with devotionals.
Ginga Well-Known Member. Personally i think that the time i spend together with my SO doing devotions and praying is great, and very very beneficial for our relationship. We have never felt like the time we spend together talking about or praying to God has brought us closer together physically, and i can't really see how it can as long as you truly have God first in your relationship. If you do, then you know that any lustful thoughts, or anything along those lines is bad, and dating won't place yourself in those dating again.
And God will give you devotions strength that you require anyway. Besides, if you dating doing devotions together, and your true purpose is for a Godly relationship, then i think that it would be very hard to use this time for physical intimacy. Sure you get closer to them in a Devotions sense, but as long as you are able to guard your heart, and do everything to honour God, then i personally think that a devotion with your SO is great.
But in no circumstance should you let this time you spend together replace your quite time with God, because you still need to read the bible and pray by yourself.
Maybe I wasn't clear. This isn't about physical closeness. It's about spiritual closeness. With only a dating partner, yes, it could be beneficial. But is it really wise to get spiritually close with someone that you don't know that you're going to marry? Then he suffered the heartache from it. It's about protection. I'm not all about saving stuff. I've hugged my boyfriend.
I've kissed him. But when it comes to spiritual closeness, that I think is important. What if the person you end up with had shared that couples closeness with someone else? Would it still have devotions worth waiting, for you? It is interesting to see on CF how many people are perhaps too much idealistically concerned with "firsts. This happened to me, only in a different sense I am not trying to spark a debate here I just enjoy getting people to think.
Singin4Him said:. Just because there may be a chance that that the man or woman you marry had any type of closeness, even to go as far as saying a sexual intimacy with someone else does not me we should give all to someone before we marry.
That's a very twisted way of thinking that will leave you with nothing but for when you do find the person God has for you to marry. If you save yourself in the most precious ways for the person you marry it will be special no matter what.
I know this for a fact considering I am married and I have experienced this very situation. Is is being idealistic or guarding ones heart? I'm sorry you personally experienced disappointment but could it be that disappointment came because it may not have christian the right time or the right person? I don't think we should EVER discourage someone from guarding their hearts, where is the logic there? Ithilwyn Active Member. Ginga said:.