Discussion Questions:

Session 2.1: Friends Don’t Let Friends Date Dumb

Chapter 2

1. How does living according to license (i.e. doing whatever we can instead of what we should) wind up limiting our freedom? (See page 21-22 in the book or look up 1 Cor 6:12.)
2. How can we fight the temptation to date (or do anything) because others are doing it? (See page 23 in the book or look up Matt 5:14-16.)
3. Have you known anyone who said they wanted to date “just for fun,” but seemed to have more serious (or even desperate) motives? What do you think was actually driving them?
4. What can make it difficult to be honest about our motives and intentions for dating? (See page 27 in the book.)
5. What can we do to keep our dating life focused on building relationships, instead of chasing experiences? (See page 24-25 in the book.)
6. Why is God more concerned with why we do what we do, than He is with what we do? (See page 29-30 in the book.)

Session 2.2: TOP 5 Dumbest Reasons to Date

Chapter 3

1. How can the opinion and regard of someone we want to date yet barely know hold so much power over us? (See page 31 in the book.)
2. Why is dating for status so common and how could Christ’s example of humility transform how we date? (See page 33 in the book or look up Philippians 2:5-8.)
3. Why would someone who already struggles with feeling they don’t belong (to God, their family, and/or community) imagine they’ll find belonging in a dating relationship?
4. What can we do to manage or master romantic/sexual desire that has been “awakened” in us too soon? (See pages 35-37 in the book or look up Song of Solomon 2:7.)
5. How could the reality that sexual intimacy is not bad, but dangerous, change the way we regard sex and fight sexual temptation? (See page 40 in the book or look up 1 Thes 4:6-8.)
6. What could someone do to build their belief and trust in God’s love for them? (Write down more than one action.)

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TOP 10 Dumbest Reasons to Date

We summarize the TOP10 Dumbest Reasons to Date in these three videos from our FMUniversity YouTube channel:

1. TOP 10 Dumbest Reasons to Date (dumb reasons 10 down to 6)
2. TOP 5 Dumbest Reasons to Date (dumb reasons 5 down to 2)
3. #1 Dumbest Reason to Date

Or watch all three videos in our LoveEd playlist, TOP10 Dumbest Reasons to Date: