Marriage is a huge responsibility and is something to be taken seriously, because when you do marry it is for life. Margo Hampton is the wife of the vice-mayor of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and the mother of four children, ages 13 and up. She took three of her children to hear Josh Harris speak in Wichita, Kansas, and agrees with his view that adolescents are better off socializing in co-ed groups, rather than isolating themselves with a boyfriend or girlfriend. It is possible, of course, but all too often, as situations have revealed time and time again, those involved in the relationship give in to their physical desires. Were I to meet a good, Christian woman here at U-Mass, I might pursue a relationship.
Parents often act as chaperones during the courting period.
A premeditated courtship was the mechanism through which Joshua Harris developed a relationship with his wife, Shannon. Unlike Harris, who had grown up in the church and in a two-parent home, Shannon Hendrickson s mother and father had been divorced since she was nine. Hendrickson embraced Christianity in her early twenties and met Harris while attending Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Readers will be delighted and shocked to learn about the final act in their quest to be a holy and wholesome bride and groom the pair kissed for the very first time on their wedding day in the fall of 1998. The Harrises recently welcomed a baby girl, Emma, into their family.