With a lot of common moral ground quickly eroding and the explosion of the hook-up culture and even the debate over sexual mores within many Christian churches… Today though, I think the consequences of being careless are rapidly becoming greater than they may have been in the recent past. But it’s not an easy road and much pain could have been avoided by having some direct and intentional conversations up front, at the very beginning.īut life isn’t always as neat and tidy as it should be… and all of us are prone to not pay close enough attention at the start of a wide variety of things. And this causes some genuine tension and serious misunderstandings between them.īy the end of the film, both of them do indeed end up at a place with God, individually, that has them in a much better position to pursue something romantically, together. In Old Fashioned, when Clay and Amber first meet they are not “equally yoked” in the strictest sense. Wikipedia quotes 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 which includes the warning about being “unequally yoked” with someone that isn’t on the same page with you spiritually. Is there any risk or downside to being careless with whom we date when it comes to faith in God or religion? Can someone be drawn away from God just as easily as another might be drawn to God through a romantic connection? The phrase itself implies a planned, intentional desire to convert that may have been true once upon a time, but… today, I think a lot of folks start dating without giving the idea of a person’s faith much thought.Īny consideration of conversion or evangelistic efforts is secondary, if present at all. It’s a term that is loosely applied any time a person of one faith (usually Christian) dates a person of another faith (or no faith at all). Did you know that “missionary dating” has a page in Wikipedia?