Discerning Maturity in a Boyfriend Before Marriage
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 7 January 2015
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're back with guest Francis Chan who joins us from San Francisco, Francis and his wife Lisa |
| 0:10.5 | wrote a new book, You and Me Forever, Marriage and Light of Eternity, and Francis you have |
| 0:15.9 | five daughters, so one day you'll be dealing with suitors at the door if not already. |
| 0:21.4 | And there seems to be a shortage of godly young men for a variety of reasons that is probably |
| 0:27.0 | connected to porn use and video game addictions, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 0:31.9 | And on the aspect of John podcast, we get a steady stream of emails from young women |
| 0:35.9 | who want to know, what should I expect to see in a young Christian man to signal that |
| 0:42.0 | he's ready for marriage? |
| 0:43.7 | How would you answer them? |
| 0:44.9 | What are you looking for? |
| 0:46.9 | Well, you know, it's interesting, my daughter did bring home a guy a few months ago from |
| 0:51.7 | college, and some of my friends asked her, they say, hey, how serious are you with him? |
| 1:02.3 | And they told me her answer was so weird, it said her answer was, I just want to hang |
| 1:09.4 | out with them long enough to see if god answers his prayers. |
| 1:13.7 | I mean, that's a weird answer, but in her mind, that was her age, okay, she lives with |
| 1:19.9 | a dad where she spent these 18 years with a dad who praised a god and she would see |
| 1:25.5 | how, man, my dad knows God, God answers him when he prays. |
| 1:30.6 | And so now that she's with these guys, she wants to know, can you really know God? |
| 1:34.7 | I mean, do you really know him? |
| 1:36.5 | Is it a true relationship with him? |
| 1:40.1 | Because growing up she would see like sometimes God would answer her prayer and I'd point it |
| 1:44.3 | out to her. |
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