1) Show yourselves to be an example to other believers.
Your courtship is not only pleasant and exciting for you, but incredibly important and instrumental to the life and health of your local church in the present as well as instrumental to the establishment of patterns for future generations. Let me explain. Most youth today follow the world's practice of "recreational dating" and, unfortunately, many of them end up with marriages that are less than exemplary. In fact, many times spiritually mixed marriages occur against the clear teaching of the Word of God (2 Cor. 6:14-7:1).

Undoubtedly your church contains at least some young people who are quickly approaching the "dating and courtship" ("dortship," if you will) season of life. This affords you an incredible ministry opportunity. Without even trying to lift yourselves up as examples, an untold number of young people will begin to formulate their convictions concerning boy-girl relationships and marriage by what they quietly observe in you. I don't say this to put an unnecessarily heavy burden of pressure on you, but to point out how God has sovereignly worked in your lives in order to multiply your ministry to others and influence the direction of many young people in your church. Therefore, it is incredibly important that you help your pastors to disciple the younger crowd in your church by serving as an example of what spiritual maturity looks like. Press on in this pursuit. You won't regret it.