Howdy, and welcome to the Breakway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakway is a Bible study that meets on the campus of Texas A&M. For more information on

breakaway, please visit breakway ministries.org. We hope you enjoy the talk. Well, we're wrapping up a series tonight on relationships.

And as we do that, let me just jump in and say,

I checked today kind of online the amount

of views and downloads of these talks we've done on singleness and dating and being engaged

and married.

And I've noticed that they have been viewed, downloaded, interacted with at least three times

as much, if not at times, 20 times as much as the normal talks we give

at breakaway on topics such as the creation of the world, God's formation of his chosen people,

salvation by grace through faith, the end of all things, the Antichrist, stuff like that.

It has paled in comparison to the amount of interest in talks about dating sex, marriage, and such,

which is great. I'm glad we've touched down on a felt need, and that people have interacted with it.

It's great to know you're speaking into the needs of people. And so

we're doing that tonight. We're jumping in to the last of four stages. This whole theory has

been that the vast majority of you are going to pass through four key stages within the next

decade. Singleness. And we talked about how God ordained your single years as a time for devotion to him.

That's the word. And then, Lord willing, you'll pass into a time of dating, which exists for evaluation.

Is this the person I should spend the rest of my days with? And then if they are, you move into a time of engagement, which is a time of union, of bringing our family and our finances and our lives together.

And that requires a lot of talks and a lot of stress and a lot of late nights.

When you said that, I thought this, you didn't mean that, or you sure you didn't mean that?

And all that kind of stuff.

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