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An attractive partner leads you to Christianity?

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I'm married. My wife is not Christian. She's agnostic. I have no wish to force my faith on her. Some of you will bristle at that, thinking it is my absolute duty to bring her to God. We were married in a Catholic Church. It's in God's hands. I'm not concerned about her eternal soul. God will take care of it.
Now , to this topic more specifically. I wonder how many conversions to Christianity have occurred through couples falling in love, one of them being Christian.
So let's say a cool rock dude atheist meets a gorgeous young princess who happens to be Christian. He's smitten. He falls for her immediately. He becomes interested in Christianity and finally converts, getting the girl of his dreams in marriage.
Does this kind of thing happen very often?
 
Does this kind of thing happen very often? Quote.

The stats show that it is the father/husband that is th most influential figure in a marriage.
A Christian and that is someone who attends church weekly, can be seen to practises his religion is more likely to influence an unbelieving wife and any children 2/3s are likely to follow their father.
When the wife is the only Christian less than 1/3 of the children will follow her.

These stats are based on attendance at a church with an active church social life and that is active in preaching the Bible and gospel message.

From personal experience at our church we have had several men become Christian with non believing wives and the wives have become Christian.
The example of the wife becoming Christianised after thirty years of being on the extreme fringe of the church. The husband did become a Christian, durring his last illness.

Best advice is check out what there faith is while dating, and only court someone with a strong faith.
For girls look to see if he is mature enough in his faith to provide challenging Christian leadership.
 
First I despise the beginning of a relationship based on outside beauty as that beauty will fade in time. As being a Spiritually renewed child of God through the Spiritual rebirth, when seeking a mate we are instructed to be evenly yoked with them in the same faith, 2 Corinthians 6:14.

A Christian is not going to date an atheist and just because someone goes to Church every week does not make them a Christian as it's only by being Spiritually born again and indwelled with the Holy Spirit that we are called a child of God, John 3:5-7; Romans 10:9, 10.

In some marriages couples do not enter into a relationship with Christ being the center of it, but maybe one of them come to know the Lord and the other one refuses to have that personal relationship with Christ then we go back to what 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 says. If the unbelieving partner leaves the believing partner then this frees the believing partner from the bondage of the vows of marriage and they are free to marry again.

Although there are many couples that seem to have a good marriage even though one is a Christian and the other an unbeliever.
 
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