We're going to talk over the next few weeks about dating, relationships, who to date, how to date,

singleness, preparing for marriage, boundaries, physical, emotional, spiritual boundaries.

Yeah, we talk a lot about serving people. I want to marry a servant, but you're not serving.

Absolutely. And, you know, those are things then you work through to go, number one,

you've got to look at your own heart and go, where do things then you work through to go, number one, you got to look at

your own heart and go, where do I stand before Christ? Do I love them? Do I not pursue them? Again, not

perfect, but I'm making progress in my sanctification become more like him. Because then when you're

doing that, you find someone who's doing the same thing. You don't overlook their faults, but you

understand them. You have empathy for them. and then you can mutually encourage one another to become the

people God wants you to be, whether that ends up being your spouse or not.

Welcome everybody to the Dialen Ministries podcast.

I'm sitting here with Brandon Wolf.

Brandon leads the young adult ministry at our church,

Stonebridge Bible Church in Franklin, Tennessee.

But I met Brandon the first day of the ninth grade.

You were my Bible teacher,

and we've probably talked on the phone almost every single day, even though we

lived for about a decade apart, I'm trying to think you left my junior year of high school and

then you're in Chicago. We're going to talk over the next few weeks about dating, relationships,

who to date, how to date, singleness, preparing for marriage, boundaries,

physical, emotional, spiritual boundaries.

And I wanted to have this conversation with you, obviously,

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