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Today I'm going to continue talking about relationships.

Now, if you are here and you are not married, you're like,

man, I should have not been here. Actually, the best time to prepare for marriage is when you're

single. Most of the marriages aren't destroyed when you are married already. We develop habits

when we are single that need to be dealt with and addressed. And so if you are a single person, I want to challenge

you, take notes, soak in because if you're going to be married or when you're going to be

married, it will come very helpful. I'm going to share with you on three levels of marriages,

or three types of marriages. And we're going to start with a basic one that is very

acceptable in our culture and then go to the more of scriptural one and then talk about what the

Bible talks about marriage. The first level of marriage is cohabitational marriage. In fact,

18 or 15 states, including District of Columbia,

recognizes a common law marriage. A common law marriage is a marriage that's legally recognized

between two people who are not married in the eyes of the law or in the church, but they receive the

same benefits and protection. So 18 states recognize that. The reason why I'm referring to

cohabitation as a marriage, because in our culture, 87% of people ages 18 to 29 say it's acceptable for unmarried couple to live together even if they don't plan to get married.

Now Christians, 41% of Christians and 58% of white evangelicals believe it's okay to live together as long as you plan to get married.

Now statistically, 70% of women, probably includes men as well, have cohabitated at some point before they got married.

The idea, the science of shacking up is part of our cultural norm.

Where you live together, you experiment, you experience, we call it the trial or the testing of a relationship,

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