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I was reading a book and found an excerpt from an article that sounded really good. I Google-d it so I could read the whole thing. It was really awesome and I have the link here that I would encourage all of my friends to read:

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This is a very interesting article entitled "(Don't) Kiss Me" and discusses kissing before marriage. Honestly, I have shared the same conviction as the author of this article but never have I heard it expressed so well. I am sure some of you will look down on me for believing this way but you are getting the real me here! And don't get me wrong, I in no way think kissing before marriage is "wrong" and I don't look down on people who do kiss...just something I have decided to save until marriage.

Here are a couple quotes from the article that really stood out to me:

I believe it's partly because kissing is treated so nonchalantly — it's something we exchange between dates, and it's justifiable as long as the people involved are Christians and they don't take it "too far." It has little to do with God; it has been reduced to a touch exchanged between two, instead of its intended purpose of three-way communion between man, woman and God. The Bible never says "Thou shalt not kiss" so we assume Jesus doesn't come into our physical connections until we are on the way to marriage.

Kissing — which quickly turns passionate when you are in love — carries a current intended to light a fire. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for "kiss" (nashaq) is derived from the primary root meaning "to kindle." I don't want to open the matchbox. "Why preheat the oven when you can't cook the roast?" as Doug Wilson puts it in Her Hand in Marriage.

Reminds me of what my senior pastor at church said once: "Don't raise expectations you cannot righteously fulfill." and also of what my youth pastor said: "In light of my past experiences, current circumstances, future hopes and dreams...what is the wise thing for me to do [or not to do]?" Something to think about!