"Love cannot be measured by how long
you wait, it's about how well you
understand why you are waiting."
Ruth Rutherford, a Christian single,
who blogs at I Kissed My Date Goodnight shared her opinion on dating
and why the Church hasn’t been much
help when it comes to addressing these
statistics. “There’s an absolute stigma
in the Church when it comes to dating.
Anyone who says there isn’t is married.
The Church preaches at length in both
word and deed about marriage, parenting,and children, placing such blessings
on a holy pedestal for everyone to strive
toward reaching. Singleness, however,
isn’t acknowledged with high regard. It’s
simply a stage we all have to somehow
get through to reach those ever greater
milestones.
The catch lies in the fact that in order
to get from single to married, one must
date. Yet the Church, for the most part,
diminishes the importance of dating.
Apparently if we pray hard enough
and believe, our future husbands and
wives will just sit next to us on the pew
one Sunday morning and the rest will
be history. If it were that easy, I’d have
a husband, and kids by now! Dating is
tough. Being single is tough, too, but it
shouldn’t be. There’s nothing inherently
wrong with being single, or wrong with
someone who isn’t married. The Church,
of all places, should accept and engage
people across the board — regardless
of relationship status. Perhaps then the
walls of stigma that separate singles and
the rest of the Christians will finally be
broken down, allowing for true community to thrive.”
Devon Franklin and Meagan Good - Franklin