This Week # 3-25

This week in OFF ROAD we finished our Sex/ Dating series with a biblical perspective on dating. As we told the students, dating isn’t. “just something to do,” but dating is a BIG DEAL. Why is it such a big deal? Well that question was answered throughout the lesson.
There are 3 big things in our life that belong to God: our heart, our body, and our relationship with Him. Dating distracts or takes away from each of these areas if we are not ready to date (An guess what… as a Junior higher, or high schooler, you are not ready to date!!!). If we are dating, and our heart belongs to God (Prov. 4:20-23), we are giving part of our heart to another person. Dating is a distraction from God, especially when it serves no purpose in JH and HS. If our body is God’s then we should be treating everyone’s body like it is God’s (1 Cor. 6:9). Is being in a dating relationship going to lead us to giving our bodies over to God? Lastly, our relationship with god should be number one. If we are dating someone we are replacing God with them. We are instead finding our identity (Luke 10:27) in them instead of God. If we want to have a healthy dating relationship we must first have a number one relationship established with God.