Thankyou! Highly refreshing to read your excellent reasons to follow prophetic counsel in this area. Sadly, too many folks in the church (young and old) take this counsel lightly, even though it's all right there in For the Strength of Youth. If PARENTS (and seminary teachers and ym/yw leaders and bishoprics) would use lesson times to emphasize proper dating attitudes, rather than tirelessly beating to death the "don'ts" of the Word of Wisdom, I think we'd see a positive cultural shift.
CarolineJuly 15, 2015
This article is so right on! As I read it, I could feel my teenage self rolling my eyes, but now at forty, well, you know hindsight...
I met my first boyfriend at fifteen, married him at seventeen ( I wasn't pregnant, just stupid), and we divorced two years later. That relationship ruined me in so many ways! Thank you for the insight that I can hopefully teach my own teenagers.
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Brother DanJuly 30, 2015
Thankyou! Highly refreshing to read your excellent reasons to follow prophetic counsel in this area. Sadly, too many folks in the church (young and old) take this counsel lightly, even though it's all right there in For the Strength of Youth. If PARENTS (and seminary teachers and ym/yw leaders and bishoprics) would use lesson times to emphasize proper dating attitudes, rather than tirelessly beating to death the "don'ts" of the Word of Wisdom, I think we'd see a positive cultural shift.
CarolineJuly 15, 2015
This article is so right on! As I read it, I could feel my teenage self rolling my eyes, but now at forty, well, you know hindsight... I met my first boyfriend at fifteen, married him at seventeen ( I wasn't pregnant, just stupid), and we divorced two years later. That relationship ruined me in so many ways! Thank you for the insight that I can hopefully teach my own teenagers.
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