Dating Done Right: How to Navigate Christian Relationships (Without Being Weird) | Jonny Ardavanis
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Jonny Ardavanis
5 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Are you struggling with Christian dating? In this insightful episode, Jonny Ardavanis and Brandon Wolf break down 7 practical principles for how to date as a Christian without being awkward or making common mistakes. Learn how to approach relationships prayerfully, clearly, and normally while maintaining physical and emotional boundaries.
This episode covers how to communicate clearly (without putting too much pressure on the relationship right away) to understanding why those late-night prayer sessions might not be the best idea, this conversation offers honest advice for Christian singles. Discover why community involvement matters, when to introduce someone to your family, and how to balance intentionality with natural relationship progression.
Whether you're a college student, young professional, or single adult wondering how to honor God in your dating life, this episode provides biblical wisdom without the weird factor that sometimes comes with Christian dating advice.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say I think this is probably one of the biggest ones practically. |
| 0:02.8 | For Christians. |
| 0:03.4 | Especially for Christians in an environment where if you grew up, and I'd call it, a conservative church and conservative environment, a Christian environment, a lot of awesome things. |
| 0:13.6 | But probably we've skewed towards the abnormal. |
| 0:16.3 | Being a weird. |
| 0:17.2 | Yeah, you just are weird. |
| 0:18.5 | Guys tend to be weird. |
| 0:19.8 | And I'm not, girls can be weird as well. |
| 0:21.9 | Don't get me wrong. But when it comes to the whole dating thing, nice to meet you. How many kids |
| 0:25.5 | do you want? Yeah. Yes, absolutely. A lot of people ask the question, how far is too far in a dating |
| 0:30.5 | relationship? They're obviously asking the wrong question. It is natural to be tempted to be physical. And I'd say one of the things we've probably done a poor job in the church is we've probably |
| 0:40.1 | encourage aspects of a relationship when you think of intimacy, everything except for |
| 0:45.5 | sexual intimacy. |
| 0:47.2 | Any disclaimers before we kind of jump into these set of principles. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to the Dialen Ministries podcast. I'm Johnny Artivantis. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm sitting here with Brandon Wolf, who I've known since I was 13 years old. |
| 1:06.0 | What was I like as a 13 year old? |
| 1:08.0 | Johnny was difficult as a 13 year old. |
| 1:10.0 | You called me a meatball. |
| 1:12.6 | Did I? |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, that was rude. |
| 1:14.3 | Were you? |
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