My dear wife sent me this link to Nancy Wilson’s recent blog post in Femina: Courtship In the Air. In this post she links to two other posts by her husband, Doug Wilson, from which he suggests 21 Questions to prospective suitors and prospective wives. These are great questions and well worth remembering when your time comes to ask them!
David and Kathy's Wedding
I have advocated a “courtship” model (whatever that means) of approaching marriage, and have found that the whole discussion seems to invite more questions than it answers. I still think it is a helpful discussion because it causes people to think more self-consciously about how we can help our children think about the future as they prepare for marriage, what kind of relationship we hope to have with them during the process of finding and deciding on marriage, and help them to be wise and godly as they choose their spouse.
Many years ago after a long conversation with some friends about that I think about courtship I wrote a paper called an Outline of the Journey to Marriage. I have gone over it with my children to help us talk about various issues related to courtship. I don’t believe this is “THE” way to do courtship; I don’t believe there are scriptures that can be used to support every point I made; I don’t think it is for every family. But I do think there may possibly be some reasonable and wise ideas that some folks may find useful.
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