Comments on: Yokes and Prebelievers

By: Payshun

Payshun — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:31:45 +0000

I love your story ray. Its encourageing. My friends are always surprised when they hear me say that I would date a non-christian. they think because of my mystical beliefs that I would always date Christians. I am not always sure of that.

By: Ray Grieselhuber

Ray Grieselhuber — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:03:23 +0000

Well, to be honest, when we started dating I was in the sleepy category myself. As our relationship grew more serious, I became more serious about my relationship with Jesus.

In a setting like the one Kaoru came from, I knew that I would have to be patient because she just didn’t have any of the cultural context (probably a good thing) to understand what it meant to be a Christian.

That’s the reason I always try to think about these things from a global perspective because many of us are called to work with other cultures and God may have someone there that just doesn’t know yet.

By: Adam Heine

Adam Heine — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:02:36 +0000

In general, I agree. I mean, I know of a number of people who became Christians through dating one. But I also have a number of friends who are no longer Christian, or who have slid into a sort of sleepy Christianity (that is all the rage these days in America), because they started dating a non-Christian against advice to the contrary. If it is to be done, it has to be handled with the greatest of care, because the risk is great – greater than most unmarried people realize.

By: Ray Grieselhuber

Ray Grieselhuber — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:42:03 +0000

I really think it has to be evaluated on a case by case basis. Kaoru wasn’t a Christian for the first two years that we dated but I always knew that God had brought us together.

By: The Heine Patriarch

The Heine Patriarch — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:32:47 +0000

The marriage that mom and I are enjoying to the fullest is living proof that the God-centric and Christ-filled lives of the two of us has made it happen. We are the two most disparate people in the world but the happiest in our relationship with each other. And we know for a fact that it is God that is the glue that holds it together. My heart goes out to anyone who tries to venture this path without God in both lives – it just can’t work without a lot of pain for the reasons stated in your blog.

By: Adam Heine

Adam Heine — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:21:40 +0000

Two things: (1) More people read your blog than you think and (2) Less people follow the links from my blog than you think.

Actually, I don’t know if either of those things are true, but if you’ve got a stat counter on your blog we can find out :-)

By: James

James — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:55:14 +0000

Oh, pooh. And I was getting comfortable with thinking only two or three people read my stuff. Oh, btw, she came to the Branch BBQ this past Saturday. We’ll see how things go…