Following the rabbit around the tree and into the hole turned out to be a lot more difficult than first imagined. I remember making my entire family late because I had to tie my shoes myself. I didn’t want any help. I didn’t want any parent to do it for me either

I can do this all by myself.

What a disaster, and it wasn’t even true! Have you thought about how complicated tying your shoe would be if you had to figure it out all by yourself with nobody else’s help? It’d be nearly impossible.

Yet when it comes to dating and marriage, it’s astonishing how many people try to do exactly that: figure out that complicated mess of string on their own. We’ve got the numbers to prove how nearly impossible it is.

41%   Divorce rate for 1st marriage
60%   Divorce rate for 2nd marriage
73%   Divorce rate for 3rd marriage or more
80%   Divorce rate for couples who live together first

It’s pretty clear that our culture has no clue what it’s doing when it comes to figuring out the knot of healthy dating and marital relationships. And we still seem to have a large group of strong-willed people who want to figure it out on their own. Why? Why is there such a resistance to dating and doing marriage God’s way?

“It’s old fashioned.”
“It’s out-dated.”
“It’s not realistic.”

Dating and marriage is infinitely more complicated than tying shoes, but what if there was a completely different set of numbers? Like a 100% chance to find a spouse that has both beauty and character? Or a 100% chance of a dating relationship that pleases God? Or maybe a 100% chance you’ll be in a marriage that you LOVE being in.

Like those numbers? How much would those numbers be worth to you? Would you buy that book? Attend that seminar?

I’m convinced if more people would study Song of Solomon and model their dating life and their marriage after it, the numbers on marriage would be drastically different. God wants us to have the best: the best dating experience and the best marriage experience. He’s put the blueprint in front of us in Song of Solomon.

The next 6 weeks we’re going to unpack it all and have a ton of laughs along the way. We will walk through all the phases of dating, courtship, marriage, and even the later stages of marriage.

This may just be the most important book on marriage ever written.

Ever.

Take the journey with us. We start it this Sunday.