Image accessed on 2018 February 9 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dates_on_date_palm.jpg
There was much talk of courtship being ok but dating being bad at my Chapter shortly before I leftI. Ironically someone was rebuked for finding a girlfriend even though they told me courting was ok. They were into I kissed dating goodbye, by Joshua Harris and said Billy Graham courted his wife. Here is a good article about what is wrong with courtship by someone else. And another two articles about the author of the book repenting that is having a change of mind.
“http://www.thomasumstattd.com/2014/08/courtship-fundamentally-flawed/”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/abstinence-author-pastor-joshua-harris-apologizes-for-telling-christians-not-to-date-in-i-kissed-dating-goodbye-168650/
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/485432485/former-evangelical-pastor-rethinks-his-approach-to-courtshipI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodby