Posts Tagged ‘living together’
We’ve been living together for years, how can we stop committing fornication?
Question: Hello, I got pregnant at the age of 17, I am now 21 and am still with the father of my baby. I’ve always gone to church since I was young but about a few months ago I realized that I needed to take my life more serious and also realized that I’m committing…
Read MoreWe’re living together without sex, so why are brethren saying it is wrong?
Question: Hello, My fiancé and I are planning to marry in June 2014. Until that time, we have made the decision to share a home and other resources with each other. She recently moved from another country and, as young people, we do not make enough money individually to be in comfortable financial situations. Furthermore,…
Read MoreWas the church right to withdraw from a couple who lived together without being married?
Question: My husband and I are faithful members of the Lord’s church. We are active in a congregation in which a situation has occurred which has caused division in the congregation. The situation is this: a man and a woman who have been baptized and are members of the Lord’s church are not married, but…
Read MoreI’ve been living with a man while my divorce was going through, but now he is reluctant to marry me
Question: Hi, We have lived together for 7 years. We probably would’ve been married long ago, but I was going through a divorce for 6 of those years, and hospitalized due to medical illnesses for about a year or something like that, on and off. We are utterly and completely in love but don’t have…
Read MoreI moved in with another woman before my divorce is final. Am I able to marry her?
Question: Dear brother, I am a member of the church of Christ and have been almost all my life. I married when I was 19 to my high school sweetheart. We were having some problems with money because I lost my job and things got hard, so one day she decide to leave me. Well,…
Read MoreI threw out the man I lived with after 12 years. So why doesn’t God make him marry me?
Question: I was in a 12-year relationship with a man, who first of all, I now realize that we started off wrong. He had gotten a girl pregnant when I met him. His excuse was “I don’t have a girlfriend, but I’m in a situation.” He was upfront and explained that although this was the…
Read MoreWe are already living together, so what do we do until the wedding?
Question: I have enjoyed reading the information on your site. I’m having a similar situation, but I still haven’t received the answer that I’m looking for, even after reading your site. Both my fiancé and I have been living together for almost a year now, and we are getting married. We both have strong believers…
Read MoreShould I marry the Catholic woman I’m living with?
Question: Hey, I’m having a hard time getting my head around a few things. First, I was brought up in a loving Protestant Christian home and lost my way through high school. I am now in my mid-twenties and I’m engaged to a Catholic. We’ve bought a house and are living together. We’re due to…
Read MoreAm I gambling with my soul by living with my girlfriend while waiting for her divorce to go through?
Question: I found Christ after being lost for almost 15 years. This is a real change, it’s not like the past. I really feel like the Holy Spirit is guiding me. I’m separating myself from all that is evil driven and it’s as if I see black and white now and have dropped all my…
Read MoreWe love each other and treat each other as husband and wife. Is this enough?
Question: My husband and I dated for over a year before we had sex. We were each other’s first. Now it has been over three years, and we are still happily standing together. Around the time that we first had sex we both made a commitment to each other and God that we would only…
Read MoreI’ve been living with a man for years, but now that he is offering to marry me, I’m not certain if he is the right man for me
Question: I am in a relationship for some years now and during this period I have gotten kids with this man. I have been frustrated in different ways by him. Now he is saying he will do the right thing by paying my bride price. Sir, I am so scared. I don’t if I will…
Read MoreI don’t know if I should marry the man I’ve been living with for the last six years
Question: I’m a divorced woman in my forties. I’m currently living with a man in his thirties whom I’ve been in a relationship with for six years. Of those six years, I was still married up until one year ago. During the entire time we were dating he asked me to get a divorce and…
Read MoreWe want to marry, but we can’t afford to lose benefits
Question: What does a very obedient Christian couple do when they are living together and willfully obeying God and not having sex, who desperately want to be married but cannot due to one of them being on SSI? The other person cannot support the other person and that money that is given every month, even…
Read MoreDo I have to kick my boyfriend out now that I’ve become a Christian?
Question: I am 21 and I have been in a relationship and living with my boyfriend for seven years. I have recently become a Christian. What are God’s views on sharing a bed together? So far, since becoming Christian, I have stopped any sexual activity with my boyfriend. He isn’t Christian but is willing to…
Read MoreMy boyfriend and I have been living together for years. Now that I am a Christian, should I move out?
Question: Hi, I’ve been struggling with this question of cohabiting. My boyfriend and I have been living together for about five years. We have one child together who is four years old and I have a child who’s thirteen years old. I recently gave my life to the Lord back near the start of this…
Read MoreI’m living with my fiancee, but we are not having sex. Am I living in sin?
Question: Hello, I’ve been a newborn in Christ for about three years. Jesus 180’d my life. My problem is that I’ve been with my fiancee for ten years now. She is starting to get closer to God but not convicted as I am yet. She wants that relationship I have with Jesus. The problem is…
Read MoreI moved in with my girlfriend for financial reasons, but lately, she is seeing another boy. What do I do?
Question: I have been in a relationship with this girl for about a year and a half now and now it’s starting to fall apart. First, let me lay out the facts: She was born and raised Christian, but in High School had a falling out since her Grandma died. She doesn’t drink or do…
Read MoreI’m moving out because I don’t want to commit fornication any more
Question: My boyfriend and I have been together for over two years. We love each other very much. This is not really a question, but a declaration. I’m leaving him to move into my own place or back with my mother because I truly want to serve the Lord and flee from fornication. He wants…
Read MoreMy boyfriend and I are in a foreign country, so how do we survive without living together?
Question: Hi, I have been reading your blogs regularly. I have a query on a couple living together before marriage. For one question regarding this, you advised them as they were willing to get married in near future to just become casual with each other and meet up in public to avoid any temptation since everyone…
Read MoreWould it be wrong for my girlfriend to move in with me a few months before we get married?
Question: My girlfriend and I have been together for three years. We are engaged and about to be married in four months. We never had sex. We talked about it and the want that we have. But we have decided to live together because she turned 18 and was forced out of her house. She…
Read MoreIs living together, but not sleeping together, a sin?
Question: I’ve just got back from my youth group after having a discussion about living together before getting married. I’ve searched your articles and I don’t think they quite answer the question “Is living together before marriage a sin?” We actually want to know is living together, but not sleeping together, before getting married a…
Read MoreMarriages
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Marriages.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Genesis 2:18-24 I. A statement in a newspaper article stood out A. Even though the number of marriages ending in divorce has stabilized after many years of rapid rise, the rate of people entering marriage has drastically declined! B. In other words, one of the reasons the divorce rate is not…
Read MoreIs living with your fiancee all right if you seriously intend to get married?
Question: If you are living with your fiance due to complications and financial necessity and it’s for a short period of time (6-8 months) and you are engaged and have a wedding date set and are in the process of making wedding arrangements (e.g wedding invitations have been sent); would it still be viewed as…
Read MoreLiving Together Before Marriage
by Ray Fowler Here are some statistics on living together before marriage from Michael McManus, the president of Marriage Savers. Statistically speaking, living together is not a trial of marriage, but rather a training for divorce. The number of unmarried couples living together soared 12-fold from 430,000 in 1960 to 5.4 million in 2005. More…
Read MoreWhere does the Bible talk about the unmarried living together?
Question: Where is the Scripture that talks about living together if unmarried? Answer: Generally the phrase “living together” is a polite way of saying that two people are sharing the same bed in the same home, thus engaged in sex, though unmarried. In the Greek, the word for this is pornos, which means engaging in sex…
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