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I didn\u2019t understand the importance of that until I became engaged to a young lady who had.\u00a0 That was something we struggled with.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, thanks for joining us.\u00a0 And that settles it right there, for me.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What does it settle?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019ve decided that my next child is going to a boys\u2019 school\u2014all boys \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>[laughing]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>On an island somewhere \u2026 where girls are not allowed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>[laughing] If you own that school and that island, would you please call Bob Lepine at (501) \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019ll do an immediate enrollment right now.\u00a0 You know, you listen to those voices and I\u2019m telling you \u2026\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, one of the great questions I\u2019ve heard you ask groups, Bob, is when you ask people, would you hold your hand up if you\u2019d like your children to replicate your dating experience?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like your kids to have exactly the same experience you had when you were in high school or college, raise your hands.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, let\u2019s just see here in this studio.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got John Bryson and Robert Lewis joining us again on <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em>\u00a0 Welcome back, guys. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert and John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Thanks.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay, who could hold their hand up?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 John?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Not me.\u00a0 Not me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Robert?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>[laughing]\u00a0 No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>In fact, here\u2019s where, here\u2019s where \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s zero for four in this room.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Anybody out in the engineering area?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes. Nobody\u2019s holding their hand up there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Todd?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Looks pretty grim out there.\u00a0 So here we are.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s what I want to do to start the broadcast.\u00a0 I want each of us to just quickly share your first college dating experience.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, Dennis.\u00a0 Thank you very much for this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And I\u2019ll start it.\u00a0 The first girl I asked out turned me down.\u00a0 And I went into hibernation for the next 12 months.\u00a0 I was so rejected.\u00a0 She completely crushed me.\u00a0 Her name was Sandi.\u00a0 I\u2019d never been turned down before.\u00a0 I was so stunned, I turned to a buddy, who didn\u2019t have a car in college, and his name was Mark.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying Mark was conceited or anything, but he\u2019s the kind of guy that took a bow every time it thundered.\u00a0 I turned to Mark and I said, Here\u2019s the car keys to my car.\u00a0 If you can get her to go out on the same night I asked her to go out, you can use my car. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI can still remember standing at the drive-in as I had to thumb my ride home, watching Mark and Sandy in my car.\u00a0 That was not a good feeling.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That is a moment of indignity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Robert, what was your first dating experience?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, mine actually was at the fraternity house where I wanted a date to one of the first dances when I was on campus.\u00a0 A fraternity friend of mine got me a date\u2014I was a freshman\u2014with this senior girl who was desperate to go out with a guy.\u00a0 I just remember as the dance started, I slipped off, back to my dorm and left her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was that bad?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was that bad.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>John, what about you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was quite similar.\u00a0 I got invited to a sorority dance with a girl, almost a blind date.\u00a0 I had known her a little bit.\u00a0 Six hours into the date, I was convinced I was going to marry her and 12 hours later she broke up with me.\u00a0 I was devastated, so it was a powerful 24 hours.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>At least she went out with you, John.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly.\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I\u2019m thinking about the sorority dance that I went to and what I remember is that I didn\u2019t bring the booze.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know I was supposed to.\u00a0 And so we show up for the dance \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I just \u2026 Just the thought of seeing you bringing the booze \u2026 [laughing] \u2026 That\u2019s kind of an oxymoron to me for you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>My date was wondering where the provisions were and I was empty-handed, and she was not a happy young lady to be on the date with me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So your date ended early, too?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It \u2026 Yes, it did not go particularly well.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, we\u2019re talking about a brand-new video series called College Ready\u2122.\u00a0 Robert Lewis, who has created Men\u2019s Fraternity, been involved in a number of video series that he\u2019s created for churches, has put together a package that equips parents to be able to help their sons and daughters go to college on purpose.\u00a0 John Bryson is a pastor as well.\u00a0 He is the teacher of this series and you guys talk about, John, such issues as \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We talk about academics, we talk about friendships, and we talk about making great memories, growing spiritually. There\u2019s about five key areas that we feel like are the big-win areas for college.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And one of them is dating.\u00a0 And this series comes with a money-back guarantee that your kids will not have the kind of experiences we talked about right here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Robert will pay for the first date.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let me say this, I tell you, the one thing I love about this series:\u00a0 This particular session has everything you would want your son or daughter to know about dating right. I can guarantee that.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen that series over and over again and every time I\u2019ll watch John on this particular session I think, There are a lot of kids I\u2019d like to send this particular session to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What are you telling young people as it relates to dating and as it relates to physical involvement?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Just in general, the playing field is getting more corrupt every day.\u00a0 I mean the sexualized culture in which we\u2019re all trying to raise these kids today is just unbelievable and it was that way even 20 years ago when we were in college.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo we do definitely, obviously, go to physical purity pretty quickly.\u00a0 But even bigger than that I really try to get them to challenge the whole paradigm of dating as we know it today or what I call kind of the 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do.\u00a0 The big picture vision that I think is electrifying in this particular session is he\u2019s helping these high school students look at college and beyond college about what guy\/girl relationships ultimately lead to.\u00a0 Just connecting those dots is an \u201caha\u201d for a student.\u00a0 Because all of a sudden they see, \u201cNo, there\u2019s a bigger game in town.\u00a0 This is not just about recreation.\u00a0 This is about my life!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know, a lot of high school students who are heading off to college are already heading off having crossed lines in physical relationships.\u00a0 So their default position, going to college, is that that\u2019s what happens in relationships.\u00a0 How do you talk them back from that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, we definitely cast an alternative vision.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a better vision.\u00a0 I would also argue, in their honest moments, they\u2019ve found those to not be satisfactory.\u00a0 They probably have regret around that rather than pride and joy around scenarios.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I definitely appeal to that, speak honestly about that, speak to that.\u00a0 There\u2019s the forgiveness factor and the purity that God\u2019s grace allows for.\u00a0 But we, as Robert mentioned, kind of try to cast a bigger vision than that\u2014that is compelling and something to fight for, and something to stand for.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>John, I\u2019m thinking about what you\u2019ve taught these young people about \u201cnot recreation, but preparation.\u201d\u00a0 I could have used that when I was a junior in college.\u00a0 Now I actually went to college twice.\u00a0 Once, to a small junior college, which was a totally different experience than when I went to the University of Arkansas.\u00a0 Not only was the size of the University much, much larger, but also the availability of the number of young ladies was much greater.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so, my first experience at the University of Arkansas, in the month of September, which is a short month, I had almost 20 blind dates in one month.\u00a0 Now for me, it was all recreation.\u00a0 It was all just surveying the landscape.\u00a0 I\u2019d kind of come out of a drought experience.\u00a0 I\u2019d been turned down as a freshman, kind of gone into a hole, and become monastic of sorts.\u00a0 And fortunately, I went to the University of Arkansas on a spiritual mission.\u00a0 So my dating life took on a different picture because I was spiritually-minded than I had been in my first two years of college.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I want to unpack this story a little bit \u2026 20 blind dates in September \u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Were you just going to friends and saying, \u201cHey, set me up with anybody.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to set a record.\u201d or what?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I tried to go out with a young lady from each of the sororities on campus.\u00a0 And the objective\u2014you got a problem with it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This was a quest you were on \u2026?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, it didn\u2019t really start out that way.\u00a0 It just started out to be a coke date to get to know these young ladies.\u00a0 And you know, given where I\u2019d come from, it was kind of like, bursting forth from the desert.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So at the end of September, had any of those relationships \u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Nothing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Nothing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Zero.\u00a0 Zip.\u00a0 Nada.\u00a0\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[laughing]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay.\u00a0 I\u2019m just trying to get the picture here.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It took a while before my dating life became sanctified.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay?\u00a0 But honestly, my life was moving in that direction.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s where you\u2019re moving young people as well, John.\u00a0 You\u2019re calling them to march to a different drumbeat than the culture.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes.\u00a0 And specifically, the men, I think the calls on the men and the calls on the women and beginning to appeal to deeper parts of their masculinity\u2014that a real man guards a woman\u2019s purity, that a real man does that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd as we\u2019ve done that, again, I think the fault for typical evangelicalism, at least the last 20 years I\u2019ve been involved in it, is just \u201cdon\u2019t do this.\u00a0 Don\u2019t have sex.\u00a0 How far is too far.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s just been trying to play defense rather than playing offense and giving them a bigger vision on why not to and what to appeal to a young man\u2019s masculinity, challenge him to guard a girl\u2019s purity.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen challenge our girls to esteem themselves enough not to in a cheap way, give themselves away like that.\u00a0 And so those higher callings onto those more noble pathways, I feel like, is the most effective route.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>John, when I was going to college, the women were not as aggressive \u2026 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026 as they are on the college campus today.\u00a0 A young man may head off to college with all kinds of noble intent, but he\u2019s going to face temptations that I never faced.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Sure.\u00a0 Yes, and that\u2019s a product of our culture.\u00a0 Our culture is a sewer.\u00a0 That\u2019s the whole essence of pornography.\u00a0 You give a woman a male\u2019s sex drive and then sell that as normative.\u00a0 The byproduct of that, of Hollywood and our culture and our over-sexualized culture, has led many women to think that\u2019s their role.\u00a0 That\u2019s how they can connect with men.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOn the surface we\u2019ve created this over-sexualized woman, aggressive woman, as the new, modern woman.\u00a0 But we all know that to be lies and deceptions.\u00a0 When you really speak honestly to men and women, speak to those deeper issues, truth just reigns and it resonates deeply.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>How do you prepare a freshman in college to be a Joseph when Potiphar\u2019s wife shows up on the college campus?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think you speak directly and honestly.\u00a0 You let them know that\u2019s an option and you that\u2019s a pathway you can take.\u00a0 Let me tell you where that pathway leads and let me show you the destruction in the midst of that.\u00a0 But to shy away from it, I think you talk more about it.\u00a0 You talk more openly about it.\u00a0 That is an option and that\u2019s a pathway you can take.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the right or best pathway, and let me tell you another way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s a current that\u2019s going to take you in the wrong direction.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Exactly.\u00a0 It\u2019s a current.\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know, one of the things I really like about what you guys have done in this video series is you\u2019re not just trying to impart teaching in an entertaining way.\u00a0 But you\u2019re trying to connect parents to engage around these issues with their sons and daughters before they face these issues on the college campus.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor many parents these are difficult areas to enter into.\u00a0 But you make it easy, Robert.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like volleyball, you kind of set it for a spike, so after the young person has heard John share about these matters as a dad, you can have a meaningful conversation with your son.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think what\u2019s really great about this particular session is the meaningful conversation is, again, not about what not to do.\u00a0 See, John has set the dad or the mom up about what to pursue.\u00a0 And he\u2019s giving vision for that high school student to think, you know, I\u2019m going off to college and I\u2019m going to engage the opposite sex.\u00a0 But now it\u2019s more serious.\u00a0 It\u2019s about connecting in a deep intimacy and with skills that ultimately to a lifetime partner.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd even though it\u2019s a high school student, you\u2019re thinking, well they\u2019re not thinking about marriage, but they are thinking about their happiness.\u00a0 They do know that marriage is out there and what you\u2019re doing is bridging in this session, helping them see that this is the bridge and what happens here will ultimately lead to either a lifetime of happiness and satisfaction with the opposite sex, or it could be tragic like what they see their friends or maybe even in their own family have.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so, he gives a vision that engages a dad with his son or a mom with the daughter to talk about, these are things of preparation rather than, \u201cNow be sure you don\u2019t do this or you don\u2019t do that.\u201d\u00a0 Now we\u2019re talking about <em>why<\/em> it\u2019s important to pursue these noble things and why you should invite others into your life to call you up and hold you accountable and be encouraged.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to enjoy the opposite sex even more if you do this, but it\u2019s also going to build a foundation for a lifetime partner.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So a young lady goes off to college, hearing this, going, Okay, I want to pursue nobility, I want to have a virtuous dating life, I want to \u2026 I\u2019ve got a vision for a different kind of dating life \u2026 A couple months in, the two songs she\u2019s singing to herself over and over again is \u201cAnother Saturday Night, and I Ain\u2019t Got Nobody\u201d and \u201cLonely, I\u2019m Mr. Lonely.\u201d\u00a0 You know?\u00a0 She\u2019s thinking, I hear your vision and that\u2019s what I\u2019d like.\u00a0 But guys, the realities of the marketplace on the college campus today is that if I stick with your vision it\u2019s going to be lonely weekends for me.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, it could be lonely weekends from time to time.\u00a0 But again, we go back to\u00a0 empowering friends and all those kinds of things and looking for healthy friendship environments.\u00a0 You start building healthy friendships as a starting place and there\u2019s community there.\u00a0 There may not be deep dating relationships there, but there\u2019s community there.\u00a0 You want to go to those healthy environments, and that\u2019s how all the series connects together.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the process, there are going to be those dating encounters, but it\u2019s going to be much healthier.\u00a0 There may not be this strong dating life all the way through, and if that\u2019s why you\u2019re going to college you might be disappointed.\u00a0 But to have the right kind of relationship and to know why you don\u2019t have a date or you do have a date that is going to set you up for a lifetime of success rather than great regret. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We really cast a vision that is full, whether or not you\u2019re dating.\u00a0 And so, I would say to that person, is that they\u2019re going in kind of deficit thinking.\u00a0 Or they\u2019re going in thinking, If I don\u2019t have a boyfriend or a date somehow it\u2019s a loss or not a full week.\u00a0 So we truly, again, try to play offense, try to cast a vision for a full life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI tell girls, I say, \u201cMan, the most single intoxicating thing for a young man is to meet a woman who doesn\u2019t need him.\u201d\u00a0 That she is going full bore for God and life and academics and pursuits and, I mean, ironically, that\u2019s the most intoxicating thing for a guy is a non-needy girl.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And she\u2019s a mystery.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>John:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And he\u2019s on a mission to find out who she is.\u00a0 You know, there are certain dangers today because of, how did you refer to it, this sexually permissive and promotional culture that we\u2019re in.\u00a0 Sexually transmitted diseases, a number of graduating high school students have those and they\u2019re going on to college campus.\u00a0 There are also issues around date rape.\u00a0 They\u2019re real.\u00a0 I mean, the dangers are there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat a session like this can do for a mom and a dad is it can set up some conversation and communication where you can have a discussion with your son and with your daughter about how to be careful with the opposite sex because some of these diseases and some of these things that happen are very real, very dangerous, and they are happening on the college campus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>This subject is very real.\u00a0 The dangers are very real.\u00a0 They\u2019re not things that might be, they are things that are happening all the time.\u00a0 Venereal disease is rampant on college campuses as well as things that you said about promiscuous activity all the time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, we took a survey here recently on college campuses that John mentions in the video series where they ask college students \u201cWhen is it appropriate to have sex in a dating relationship?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe guys that were surveyed said on the fifth date.\u00a0 The girls said on the second date.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a new world order that\u2019s out there.\u00a0 The only way you counter act that is with vision and encouragement and empowering friends and healthy friendships, and a growing spiritual life, all of which we talk about in this College Ready series.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, getting students ready for this becomes essential to succeeding in college. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think it\u2019s really the parents\u2019 responsibility to take this on.\u00a0 In fact, I think one of the last milestones, other than marriage, is to say goodbye to your son or daughter as you drop them off at that dorm or that fraternity and you launch them on what\u2019s going to be a life either on a mission or in need of somebody who\u2019s on a spiritual mission to reach them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Robert:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And Dennis, I might also add, I think it should be of supreme importance of churches to prepare their students to go to college.\u00a0 I agree with you on the parents as well.\u00a0 But I think churches, youth pastors, and church leaders should be thinking\u2014These kids are our crown jewels.\u00a0 This is next-generation Christianity.\u00a0 And if we don\u2019t ensure in some way, as best we can, their success, we\u2019re squandering our assets.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>\u00a0<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so, that\u2019s why I would hope that in this College Ready series there would be scores of churches all across America that would be awakened by this series and take seriously, we\u2019re about to launch these kids into a very dangerous environment.\u00a0 But also a potentially great environment for shaping their future and the more we can make them ready, the better.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>There are undoubtedly a number of listeners, Bob, who have taken their son or daughter through Passport2Purity \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026which is for 11- and 12-year-olds, before they get into adolescence and face all the choices of being a teenager.\u00a0 Well, this is the equivalent for going to college.\u00a0 It\u2019s designed to equip the young person to make the right choice and to have convictions before they face those choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And it\u2019s probably, as you said, going to be used in a church environment, with a youth group or maybe a Christian school where it\u2019s a part of what they do to launch the senior class into the college years.\u00a0 But it certainly can be used by moms and dads who simply want to get together with other moms and dads.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019m thinking of families that are homeschooled.\u00a0 This is a great way to get together with other homeschooling parents and together parents and children watch the DVDs, talk about what\u2019s coming up, use the workbook.\u00a0 And the point is:\u00a0 Get equipped.\u00a0 Get ready.\u00a0 Because a change is coming.\u00a0 And you want to make sure that you\u2019ve laid the groundwork for that change in your child\u2019s life.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There is information available there about the DVD package for College Ready, the student guide, the leader\u2019s guide.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find out all about it on the website:\u00a0 FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s also information about a great graduation gift you can give to a high school senior.\u00a0 A 20-song music CD that features new songs from groups like Relient K and 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resources you\u2019re looking for sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI will run into listeners from time to time.\u00a0 It\u2019s always interesting to me because we\u2019ve been doing this now for almost 18 years.\u00a0 And we\u2019ll run into folks who will say, \u201cI just started listening to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> and God\u2019s really using it,\u201d or \u201cI found the program very helpful,\u201d or \u201cThere was a particular series you did that was really helpful.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s always fun to meet those of you who are new listeners to the program.\u00a0 And if that\u2019s you, we\u2019re happy you\u2019re tuned in, happy that you\u2019re listening, hope you\u2019re able to make it a regular part of your routine.\u00a0 Whether you listen to the podcast or whether you\u2019re tuned in to the radio program each day, we\u2019re glad to have you along.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd in fact, we\u2019d like to 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can get to one of our Weekend to Remember\u00ae marriage conferences.\u00a0 We hope to be able to strengthen and develop your marriage and your family throughout the years to come.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe hope you can be back tomorrow.\u00a0 There\u2019s one subject we\u2019ve not talked about so far this week related to sending your son or daughter off to college and that is making sure they are spiritually ready and equipped to continue their faith journey as they head on to the college campus.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about that tomorrow.\u00a0 Hope you can be back. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Phil Krause and our entire broadcast production team. 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