<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[i kissed dating, part Step up! [Both of you!] &#8211;&nbsp;intro]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>i recently received an email from a friend of mine who is a <strong>girl who loves Jesus</strong> but is <strong>getting quite frustrated with the guys in her church</strong> not stepping up in the area of <strong>asking girls out</strong> <a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/dating-q-and-a-where-have-all-the-good-christian-men-gone-the-email/">[you can read the email and the responses i gave here]</a></p>
<p>after posting it, i received a pretty <strong>huge number of responses</strong> from Christian young adult women going &#8220;<strong>Yeah, step up boys!</strong>&#8221; or something like that. someone commented that mathematically there are <strong>more christian women than christian men</strong> so they&#8217;re already on the back foot.</p>
<p>then i read some comments that my new friend <strong>M Joshua</strong> had written at the end of his worth-reading <strong>Love Subverts blog</strong> on Christian Dating <a href="http://lovesubverts.com/2011/03/christian-dating">which you can read here</a>.</p>
<p>and so, having dealt with this topic, i realised it needed a bit of a closer look &#8211; which i will do in <strong>my next two posts</strong> &#8211; but also that <strong>this is not just a guy thing</strong> &#8211; it&#8217;s a guy thing AND it&#8217;s a girl thing and i will look at both briefly with the hope that you will carefully look at the one that relates to you and give it some serious thort &#8211; i am also hoping that these blogs in particular <strong>will get you responding</strong> so we can hear exactly what you&#8217;re thinking and feeling and saying on the matter&#8230;</p>
<p>this seems to be <strong>quite a big deal</strong>, so let&#8217;s treat it like that &#8211; start by asking yourself the question: <strong>How do i as a Jesus-following guy/girl need to step up in the area of showing/receiving interest to members of the opposite sex? </strong></p>
<p>you ready for this? read on&#8230;</p>
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