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2025 Abide Retreats!
Abide has two retreats coming up this year! Here is a flyer with the details for both retreats. We think you're going to be excited about the speakers and topics! You can click here to be taken to our homepage, where you can scroll down to see our ticket options. Tickets remain discounted until February 23rd before going up to the next price tier. Be sure to get yours before then! And if you plan on coming to both, get the bundle and save even more.
We encourage you to ask the elders and deacons at your local church if finances are an issue. We have heard many reports from church leaders eager to see their young adults connect with other like-minded believers. Many have been more than willing to help with that cause.
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Lots of singles, but few weddings
Hello Abide Community! Tim Challies posted this article on his blog yesterday: https://www.challies.com/articles/lots-of-single-christians-but-few-weddings/. Do you agree or disagree with his observations? How would you answer any one of his questions near the end of the post?
"Churches can make dating weird by attaching too much weight to the earliest stages of a relationship, thus causing people to shy away from relationships at all instead of risking a breakup that will become a source of gossip."
This is a really good point. It's hard to even build friendships with people of the opposite gender without fellow church members or locals spreading gossip or casting the looks, etc. If we can't even get to know each other on a friendship level, we're not going to risk going further and really setting things flying. I've personally experienced the heartache of gossip destroying a good friendship, or people refusing to even be seen talking to me because of the above issues. I'd love for this to change because friendships with the opposite gender are such a blessing even without going any further.
That's one gorgeous poster.