Why Date?: Episode 861
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The goal in dating, plus how to process the 2024 U.S. election, and is there too much intimacy in studying the Bible with your date?
Featured musical artist: Phil Wickham
Roundtable: The Purpose of Dating
Why should you date? Is it to casually have fun or to seek a marriage partner? What are the pitfalls of each, and is there a balance between the two? Our guests share their opinions on what dating should look like, what it means to get serious, and how to not get too worked up in the process.
Culture: Confidence and Compassion for Election Season
The landscape of the 2024 election season is changing daily. What doesn’t seem to change is the collective mudslinging, hand-wringing and doomsday-predicting among candidates, pundits and voters. How can Christians rise above the fray and trust God in all things? How do we make God-honoring choices from the ones laid before us? And how do we love others in the process? Summit Ministries’ Dr. Jeff Myers helps us frame our perspective and navigate election season with confidence and grace.
Truth Changes Everything: How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis
Inbox:
If you and your boyfriend or girlfriend want to grow spiritually, praying and reading Scripture together can be a great step. But is there a danger in becoming too spiritually intimate before marriage? Counselor Jerry Jones weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
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| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. Well, hey everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. This is Lisa Anderson here with you. And happy August to you all. Very excited to be with you in this kind of last month of summer. I don't like talking about that. I know summer doesn't officially end until September, |
| 1:27.9 | so we're going to lean into that. In the meantime, later on for our inbox, we have a listener who is |
| 1:33.1 | wondering, how should a couple pursue Christ together when they're dating without becoming too |
| 1:38.8 | spiritually intimate? So that's a great question. We've talked about that here at Bellinless before, |
| 1:43.3 | and so one of our |
| 1:44.3 | counselors is going to give some additional tips around that. And then for our culture segment, |
| 1:49.3 | Dr. Jeff Myers, the president of Summit Ministries, is going to be with us to discuss how Christians |
| 1:56.0 | should talk about live out their faith heading into an election season, which we are here in the U.S. |
| 2:03.3 | Does it matter? How do you vote character, your conscience, how do you make decisions? |
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