Cohabitation. It dishonors God. So why is shacking up okay with so many Christians?

That's what I'm going to take a look at on today's episode of Fearless in my series,

The Elephant in the Room.

Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless.

Helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. Feeling. I want to be fearless.

It is really hard to believe that the holidays are here. It just feels like we started this new season of Fearless, but here we are Thanksgiving and Christmas or right around the corner. And you might be preparing for people to come visit, whether that is family, adult children coming back,

or just friends who come to stay with you for the holidays.

And in recent years, I noticed or just kind of this friends who come to stay with you for the holidays.

And in recent years, I noticed just kind of this trend

where more and more families are allowing their grown children

to come back into their home and stay in the same room with their

fiance or with their girlfriend and I've been kind of shocked by this trend I've

seen because I can't imagine if I'd come home as an adult with my boyfriend Corey and said,

hey dad we're going to stay in the same room that just would not have gone over

too well. I probably won't even repeat what my dad might have said or would have done to

Corey but I've seen this as a growing trend and we're going to talk about that today here on Fearless about cohabitation and couples that are choosing to live together.

And once again, I always want to remind myself,

when I'm talking about these issues, these tough issues,

I'm talking to Christians.

That is my audience here. The world wouldn't understand. The world doesn't live by our

standards that God set. So I want to remind that. I'm talking to Christians here. But

Corey and I found ourselves in the same situation when some of our dearest friends who were not married but did

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