What's up, y'all? It's Bethany and Kristen, and we're going to be talking about practical tips for embracing purity in a dating relationship. And I can already hear the screams of the internet.

These legalistic monsters, can you believe they still use the word purity? How dare they? Well, guess what? The Bible, I know, because that's any time you use the word purity, any time to talk about, like,

having any boundaries, it's like these legalistic monsters.

It doesn't have to be a trigger.

It's not.

It's not.

What we want to talk about is, like, okay, the Bible is very clear that we should honor the marriage bed,

that we should save sex for marriage because that's God's good design.

We didn't make that up. That's what the Bible says. That's his good plan for the covenant of marriage. So like,

bb, bb, b, b, rewinding into dating relationship. Like, we all have to have boundaries. We all have

to come up with something that helps us to get to know the other person, not just for the heck of it, but for the purpose of marriage. We're trying to figure out, like, are you the person I want to marry?

If you're just dating for the heck of it, like, what are you doing?

Like, is it just like, oh, maybe in five years?

Like, what?

What are you doing?

The point of a dating relationship should be, like, let's get engaged, let's get married. But during that process, you want to honor the other person. You want to bring glory to God.

You want to honor God in this relationship. You want to respect marriage. You want to honor the marriage

covenant of, you know, of sex and intimacy and all of that. So what boundaries do you have in place. What practical tips? And there are so many couples that we interact with who are dating.

And they're like, we're really struggling sexually and like we're having all these issues and

struggles. And you're like, okay, what practical things do you have in place? Where's your heart

in this? And they're like, oh, I haven't really thought about it. So today, we are going to bring

the practicals. Yes. I was talking to a single girl or, yeah, recently, and she was talking about she's in a dating relationship, how it is hard to be in a dating relationship. And she's dating a Christian guy. Yeah. They are hoping to get married someday. And she was saying it is hard in their relationship to walk a path of purity. And there are different ways. They're both struggling. And she's just like,

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