S3 12: What Is Dating For and How Has It Changed? With Lisa Anderson
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How has dating changed? How should we view it? Lisa Anderson runs Boundless at Focus on The Family, a ministry that helps young adults to thrive in adulthood. Lisa shares insights and wisdom on the topic of dating that help us as well as the people in our lives who are in dating relationships.
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Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven, which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Strong Women listeners, we want to hear from you. |
| 0:05.5 | If the Strong Women podcast has made an impact in your life, in your view of God, his world, |
| 0:11.6 | his purpose for you as a woman, or anything else, leave us a short voicemail by going to |
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| 0:49.5 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:53.6 | And I'm Sarah Stone Street. We're so glad you're here. |
| 1:02.3 | Thanks for joining us today for our second part of our conversation with Lisa Anderson. |
| 1:09.2 | Lisa runs boundless at Focus on the Family, which is a ministry that helps young adults thrive in adulthood. |
| 1:13.6 | In this part of our conversation, we talk with her about dating. How has dating changed? |
| 1:15.6 | How should we as Christians view dating? |
| 1:17.6 | These are some of the questions that we tackle with her today. |
| 1:20.6 | Lisa shares wisdom and insight to help us and those who we are doing life with |
| 1:24.6 | navigate this important topic. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm so glad you've joined us today. |
| 1:32.6 | All right, so Lisa, tell us about boundless. What do you guys do there? Boundless, which was founded |
| 1:38.5 | in the late 90s, not by me, is really a discipleship ministry. So a lot of people think of us as just singles, |
| 1:45.9 | but that is because the average marrying age right now is 28 and 30 for women and men, respectively. |
| 1:52.8 | So many in our audience are single. But really, it's young adults because the way we experience |
| 1:58.8 | life so much is generationally. It's not based on our relationship |
| 2:03.1 | status. So, for example, when we talk about stuff at Boundless, if we have a 28-year-old listener |
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