Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of Encounter Now podcast. We are so stoked for this topic. I know that we've

gotten this request many, many times, and you may be sitting on the edge of your seat wanting to hear

what our opinion is on this, but we're not really going to give you opinion today. We're going to

give you scripture. We're going to give you our personal stories with this, and we're going to give you our heart. So we hope you feel prepared for this.

And if you want to take notes, you can take notes. And we're going to leave some resources in the show

notes as well so that you can look into those. But without further ado, let's go ahead and get started.

Okay. started. Hey, what's going on, guys. Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. Today,

Chelsea and I are going to chat and address the idea, well, not really the idea, but the concept of Christians who are dating and whether or not it is okay or permissible

to date someone who is not a Christian. Or healthy, for that matter.

Or healthy as a human being, but specifically if it's okay to date someone who is a Christian. We're healthy for that matter. We're healthy as a human being, but specifically

if it's okay to date someone who is a Christian, well, of course it's okay to date someone who is a

Christian as a Christian, but someone who is not a Christian. A lot of people have questions about this

and they get a little bit confused with the scriptures and if those same things back then applied to now. So we're just

going to have an open dialogue. Talk about it. I don't know necessarily that it will be a podcast

that goes for, you know, 30 or 40 minutes. Yeah, I mean, this is a pretty, pretty upfront

and I don't want to say easy, but it's just a pretty upfront concept to talk

about it sometimes people though if they're caught in a relationship they need to be convinced

otherwise if they're supposed to get out of it so I think we can speak from experience here too

because I know that in my dating life I didn't necessarily listen to myself and the standards I had held for myself for a specific reason.

So do we want to talk about that a little bit before we get into it?

Like maybe our dating journey and not dating each other.

Of course, we dated other people before we could talk about that.

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