{"id":785,"date":"2007-04-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=785"},"modified":"2009-12-16T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:00:51","slug":"preview-of-dtr2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2007\/04\/16\/preview-of-dtr2\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview of DTR2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Pastor John Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spring is now upon us and the topic of &#8220;Dating and Relationships&#8221; continues to be on the forefront of many who are single, and understandably so. I would like to address this issue again in a sermon series soon, but until we set the dates (pun intended), I will give some preliminary thoughts and entertain questions and comments.<\/p>\n<p>Having a God-honoring, Bible-centered world view manifested in all areas of life is a challenging yet worthwhile endeavor to pursue since the consequences of failing to adhere to such will only result in conformity to the world and a self-serving agenda. I say this because it is all too evident in the practices seen in many well-intentioned individuals who resort to various strategies that would seem to be biblical at first glance but are filled with subtleties that might escape immediate notice.<\/p>\n<p>While I do not wish to single out any particular individual or relationship, I will be addressing what I see as some very real and present dangers that are being thrown around the general Lighthouse scene. It is in reflection of such dangers that I wish to address them directly and raise a call for humble yet convicting evaluation of the heart and motivation of all who are seeking to pursue God-glorifying relationships that will hopefully one day turn in to Christ-magnifying marriages.<\/p>\n<p>So let the DTR2 preview begin. Coming next entry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Pastor John Kim Spring is now upon us and the topic of &#8220;Dating and Relationships&#8221; continues to be on the forefront of many who are single, and understandably so. I would like to address this issue again in a sermon series soon, but until we set the dates (pun intended), I will give some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastors-corner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}