Is Your Boyfriend Mature Enough for You?

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 30 January 2015

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

For Christians, the church is the best context for developing relationships because a local community of faith should provide discipleship and accountability like no other place.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Aspastor John podcast.
0:07.3	We are putting the finishing touches up on our 2015 conference for pastors, which begins
0:13.2	here soon in Minneapolis.
0:15.4	It actually runs next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and your prayers will be appreciated.
0:21.9	But for the next several episodes, we're going to be joined by Matt Chandler, the lead
0:25.7	pastor at the village church in Dallas.
0:28.3	Matt is the author of several books, including his newest title, The Mingling of Souls.
0:33.2	God's design for love, marriage, sex, and redemption.
0:37.1	And he joins us on the phone from Dallas.
0:39.5	Matt, thank you for joining us.
0:40.7	Oh, it's my pleasure, brother.
0:42.3	I actually want to take this time to focus in on relationship questions faced by young
0:47.4	Christian men and women in particular, who are single or dating and who are not yet
0:53.3	married.
0:54.7	This is a season of life that awakens a lot of desires, a lot of hopes, and it brings
0:59.8	with it a vast array of tricky, pastoral questions.
1:03.6	We get emails from listeners in this season of life every single day.
1:08.0	And I'm grateful for three single friends, especially who help me write and sharpen these
1:11.8	questions to maximize our time together.
1:14.8	Special thanks to Lori Ferguson, Paul Maxwell, and of course to our very own Marshall Siegel.
1:21.3	So Matt, with this list of 10 questions, we will just start working
1:24.5	through them.
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