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Dating Apps, Social Media Have ‘Crippled’ Modern Dating Experience, Says Craig Groeschel During in-Depth Q&A With His Wife Amy

“You should talk about it,” she said. “Talk about, ‘Hey, what would it look like if we began to pray together? What would be your expectations? What do I think my expectations are?’ But I think just starting with a conversation and then just starting. Like, what do we want to pray about, you know? How long are we gonna pray? There’s all those expectations.”

Craig added with a smile, “Yeah, the whole ‘how long’ is a good question,” as the congregation began to laugh. “Because Amy’s expectations were much broader than mine.”

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“But I like that, because a lot of times, there’s insecurity: ‘I’m not gonna do it right.’ And so when you kind of put it out on the table of, ‘what are we gonna pray about,’ there’s a lot of things that you might not think about to pray about,” Craig went on to say. “And here’s what the interesting thing is. We also find out what we’re both mutually interested in. And so it’s not only joining us to the spiritual things, but it’s joining us to each other.”

“And then what I would say too, oddly enough, this is kind of crazy—I found it easier to pray with Amy when we were dating than when we got married,” Craig admitted. “Because life started taking over when we were married. And then, honestly, I didn’t want to pray for a long time. And so what I found is that consistency matters a lot.” 

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“And it doesn’t have to be that you pray for a long time,” he added, going on to say that he and Amy had prayed for under a minute together that morning. “But it is a touchpoint, and doing a very little bit is indescribably more valuable than doing nothing.”