UK Christian Fellowship and Dating

We’ve all been there – on an emotional high after a great conversation with a potential date, only to feel down and disheartened when a fledgling relationship fizzles out or rejection follows. Dating is an emotional rollercoaster. That’s a given. The key to joyful and successful dating is to learn to manage your emotions through the peaks and troughs. To flourish, it is important to ensure your feelings don’t take over and to find a relationship without losing yourself.

This year marks the milestone of ten years since I met my husband on Christian Connection. With ten years of life’s ups and downs and now two beautiful children thrown into the mix, we have found ourselves in the category of having enough experience to give a little marital and dating advice! It got me thinking about those starting to date, wanting a lasting relationship, and how to steer dating towards marriage and a happy lifetime together. A good starting point is the wedding vows we took, and what anyone wanting to eventually get married can learn from them.

If you’re a full member on Christian Connection, one of the most powerful tools available to you is the Discover filters. You’ll have found your Discover page already: it’s the one that greets you when you open the site or app, showing you pages of potential connections. If all those results feel a little overwhelming, you’ll find that clicking filters can help you narrow your search to profiles that fit what you’re looking for.

“I first knew about George when five thumbnail images appeared as I logged in to Christian Connection. I read each one and decided that I would give a digital ‘wave’ to George. Unbeknown to me, another lady had also waved at George who lived in the same city, Norwich. Later I found out that he […]

I remember as a kid being excited to go to church on Easter Sunday because I had new clothes and new shoes to wear, which was part of our family tradition. As I got older, I still saw Easter as a significant time in the Christian calendar but for different reasons, least of all new clothes and shoes! As a single person you might feel like Easter doesn’t have much to offer you in terms of excitement. But what if I told you that Easter is the perfect time to reconnect with God, especially if you feel your relationship has been a bit shaky?

Dating can feel like riding an emotional rollercoaster. There are highs and lows, expectations and disappointments, periods of excitement and times when we want to give up. But what if dating could feel less draining? By understanding what dating is and what it isn’t, we can make the journey easier for ourselves. Here are three dating misconceptions and three truths about the search for love.

Meeting for a date can be a nerve-wracking experience and for some people, having a beer or wine can help to calm the nerves. But drinking doesn’t have to be part of your dating experience, and there are plenty of alcohol-free date ideas to enjoy together. Some Christians prefer not to drink at all, and for others drinking alcohol isn’t an option. It can be wise to approach a first or later date sober and be focused on the person you’re meeting.

For Elizabeth, meeting Pieter was the response to twenty years of prayer and several years of resisting the idea of online dating. “It actually took me seven years to get to the point where I was actually ready to meet someone online,” Elizabeth remembers. “By that time, four very close friends had met their husbands […]

You’ve probably got a good story about meeting Jesus, and if all goes well, you’ll have a good story about how you met your spouse, too. One of the main ways modern stories are told is through the movies, with as many as 10,000 feature films being produced each year around the world. With that in mind, here are five unexpected ways that Christian dating is like the movies.

Love it or loathe it, AI technology has quickly become an accepted part of daily life online. Whether it’s the growing numbers of realistic-looking videos produced by generative AI, or an LLM (Large Language Model) like ChatGPT offering to write an email or plan a holiday, what humans managed to do alone for many years now comes with a world of virtual options – and often a sense of confusion or overwhelm. How can we know what’s real? And what does this mean for online dating and authentic connection? Perhaps you’ve received a message from a connection that sounds a little too perfect, or you’ve wondered if an LLM could help you say exactly what you want to say in your profile. There’s a word for asking an AI tool to help you date online: chatfishing.