People attempting to follow a courtship model within today's culture, however, often run into a lot of practical questions, such as, "What if her dad is unavailable or uninterested in being involved?

" or "What do you do when you live hundreds of miles from your family?

The “Christian culture” has done quite a number on this topic, hasn’t it? We’ve added a ton of rules, and sprinkled them with even more rules.

The system today's young men and women have inherited for finding and marrying a future spouse leaves a lot to be desired.Other messages have stressed that Christians need to be much more counter-cultural.Joshua Harris, for instance, has promoted a model of courtship that harkens back to a model used broadly before modern dating evolved." Your question sounds very much like"how far can we go? Unfortunately, while we would like a definitive answer, the bible doesn’t lay down a set of hard and fast specific boundaries, but rather gives a set of ‘principles’ for relationships.With these ‘principles’ we must then work out how to apply them in our situation.