Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Friendship is the purpose of marriage.

It's not the only purpose, but if friendship is the purpose of marriage,

that's going to have massive implications for dating.

Because if marriage is about friendship, friendship ought to be the basis of dating.

You ought to be looking for someone who is your equal,

which is why I say if you're not a Christian,

why the Bible says, you should never date or marry somebody who's not a Christian. Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, Author, and Apologist J.D. Greer.

I'm your host Molly Vidovich.

Today, Pastor J.D. begins a new teaching series called Forever Family.

You know, how you think about marriage affects the way that you view so much more of life,

even if you're not married.

Topics like dating, conflict, and even singleness are ultimately shaped by our

view of marriage. Today, Pastor J.D. shows us how the gospel shapes the essence and purpose of

marriage and teaches us why, no matter what you have been

called to whether marriage or singleness you're going to need God's help to

accomplish it so grab your Bible and a pen and let's join Pastor JD now as we've been talking about our forever family.

Welcome to Summit Family and all of our campuses in the triangle.

We are beginning a new series this weekend in which we're going to take several

weeks to study what Jesus taught about romance, marriage, sex, singleness, family, kids,

and other small trifling topics.

Let me just say from the outset

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