Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to drive across town.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

We've been talking about 1 Corinthians 13 which is Paul's definition of love.

Now the average person today if you ask them what love is they would think of romantic love. Now that has very little to do

with what Paul is talking about, but today we are going to talk a little bit about that. We're

going to talk about online dating. I think one reaction to online dating is that we say oh that's great or it's bad and

I think that's the wrong way to think about it. Every culture has had a way for people to move into a marriage commitment and

sometimes that's looked like arranged marriages, whatever. In our culture today

it looks like dating and now in the 21st century it looks like online

dating so instead of saying that's good or bad I think as Christians were better

off saying what's a wise way to approach the cultural way of

developing relationships in getting to a point where you're ready to make a marital

commitment. I think one good way to develop wisdom isn't to come up with a list of seven things you

must do, but to come up with a list of questions you can ask yourself so that you can discern and

think through what's the best way to do something like online dating.

So instead of saying this is right or wrong, what if we said, what kind of person am I becoming?

So to help us think about what kind of person am I becoming? So to help us think about what kind of person we may or may not end up becoming through the process of online dating,

we've come up with seven questions and we think it would be helpful for any Christian who's going to be doing online dating to think

through. So this leads to our first question we think anybody should ask if they want to be

wise in online dating and that's what's your goal in dating.

Now here's the deal that's obviously not just a question for people who are

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