[Faith-talk] FW: FW: [thefamilyoffaith] "Girls Come With Instructions" - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

[Jenny Keller]

I must say, even though you didn't' ask for my editorial, that that passage and those words are something that christian men need to hear.  

In my church, single men and women do not do anything together without a third party present unless they're courting and even then, I don't think they do anything together alone, to prevent a physical relationship.  Don't quote me on the courting thing because I'm not sure.  

My husband is not a christian, but he behaves like one and supports my beliefs and my activities at my church and other things that go along with it like reading and studying the Sunday School lesson online.  That entalilentails listening MP3's of the holy scriptures and he never gives me any kind of negative response.  

He even agreed to have our wedding in my church, though he does not have a relationship with Heavenly Father.  He however, behaves as a Christian man aught to behave though, and I pray that some day it will click for him, and the Heavenly Father will send someone to him who makes him comfortable enough to learn about him and Jesus, and the plan of salvation.

In my church though, you don't just date to date or court, you do those things to find a life long and hopefully, if he is of our faith, an eternal partner.  

Casual dating just doesn't happen.  

If there is male and female interaction it is insured that nothing of a sexual or immoral nature can happen having the third party there to protect both of their virtue and not to have things appear improper.

We even have singles activities such as dances, and conferences, to interact with each other when we are single and we learn how to behave with our brothers, and our potential mates before marriage.

That was a wonderful post today and one that I think all Christians should see.

Jenny
On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Eric Calhoun wrote:

> I agree!  And I'll have something to say about that, in a moment.
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> Subject: FW: [thefamilyoffaith] "Girls Come With Instructions" - Ron
> Hutchcraft Ministries
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>            Girls Come With Instructions
>            Friday, April 20, 2012
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>            When my son was a teenager he used to read the Sunday
> cartoons, and I heard him laughing out loud one day. He called out to me,
> "Hey, Dad, come here. They got this one right!" He could really relate to
> this particular cartoon, and knowing that this was something that would
> help my intellectual development, he let me read it.
>            There's a young man standing at his locker in school and he
> says, "Could it be? I'm almost certain that she did! I'm sure that new
> girl, Angie, smiled at me when I passed her in the hall just now!" See, my
> guys could relate to this. Then this guy says, "Then again, maybe she's
> just friendly and smiles at everyone like that." Then he says, "Or maybe
> she was smiling at someone else and not at me at all." And then the final
> panel he says, "(Sigh)...I wish girls came with instructions." They do.
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>            Now, our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1
> Timothy 5:2. It's part of a passage that gives us instructions on how a
> Christian man should treat various groups. And then, we get to how he
> should treat the women; especially the younger women. Here's what it says,
> "Treat the younger women as sisters with absolute purity."
>            Well, what do you know? Girls do come with instructions. And
> the instructions are, "Treat them as sisters with absolute purity." I'll
> tell you, that's a pretty revolutionary concept for modern male/female
> relationships. We men are raised to treat women as conquests, not sisters;
> as someone to know mostly on a physical level, not as a person in a family
> kind of relationship.
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>            Interesting! Sometimes you'll hear someone describing
> something that's relatively unexciting in this way, "Oh, it's sort of like
> kissing your sister." You know, a relationship with your sister is not
> primarily physical; it's a family deal. The point of what Paul is saying
> is, "That's what we ought to be seeking as men in our relationships with
> women."
>            The bonds between a brother and sister aren't based on a
> physical relationship; it's a friendship - a bonding based on something
> much deeper, shared experiences, laughing together, crying together,
> shopping, eating, arguing, and celebrating.
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>            Relationships between men and women become much more
> complicated, much more tense, much more unnatural, when they're dominated
> by a romantic agenda or a sexual agenda. If only we could turn in our
> hunting license and quit looking for girlfriends, and start looking for
> girls who are friends.
>            One characteristic of a brother's love is protection. Man,
> I'll tell you, a brother won't let anything happen to his sister. Well,
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> know, it's time we men start to protect every woman around us from being
> used, from being cheapened by physical involvement, to begin to give them
> the royal treatment and the loyal treatment that a sister deserves. And
> it's time women begin to tell men that they want real relationships that
> are centered in Christ and committed to purity; to tell them that by the
> way they dress, and the way they move, and the way they talk.
>            Men and women? Well, they're always going to be a mystery to
> each other, but we've made it much more confusing than it needs to be.
> Start looking for sisters to build up, not lovers to conquer; people to
> minister to.
>            That's how we were created to be with each other. I know
> that, because I've read God's manufacturer's book, and girls do come with
> instructions.
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