Baptist Press - Study: Cohabiting normative but harmful

Baptist Press - Study: Cohabiting normative but harmful - News with a Christian Perspective

As she looked at the young lady's new engagement ring, the pastor's wife said, "That's beautiful! Have you two picked a date?"

The young lady replied, "We're thinking next April (over a year away) because we've only been in our house for four months."

The clear indication is that this young lady speaking to her pastor and his wife thinks the normal and wise course is to 1) cohabit, 2) become engaged, and 3) get married. There was a time when even if a person chose to do this, they wouldn't expect the church, especially not the pastor or his wife to approve. Clearly we are living in a post-modern, post-Christian culture, even in what was formerly the Bible belt.

Baptist Press - Study: Cohabiting normative but harmful