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    Finding Your Million Dollar Mate
    Finding Your Million Dollar Mate
    Finding Your Million Dollar Mate
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    Finding Your Million Dollar Mate

    By Randy Pope

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    This whole marriage thing is intriguing, isn't it? No matter the culture or time in history, marriage is a huge deal and ought to be treated as such. But finding the ideal mate is so difficult, especially these days. What if you could find the perfect mate, someone you could live with the rest of your life who'd meet all your longings and expectations? That would be priceless! In this new book, Randy Pope presents the six key principles for finding your "million dollar mate." Readers will find their perceptions challenged, their standards heightened, and their hopes lifted.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJun 1, 2009
    ISBN9781575675039
    Finding Your Million Dollar Mate
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    Randy Pope

    Randy Pope is the founding and current Pastor of Perimeter Church in Atlanta, Georgia.  Perimeter has helped plant twenty-eight churches in the greater Atlanta area and is a founding partner of Unite, a group of over 120 churches from different denominations working together to bring Kingdom transformation to the city of Atlanta. Randy has recently established Life-on-Life Ministries, an organization committed to establishing life-on-life missional discipleship in churches worldwide. Randy is the author of four books, and a graduate of the University of Alabama and Reformed Theological Seminary. 

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      possibly a good book to give to someone who dates around a lot and whines about it, but worthless otherwise. Made me think of an infomercial for "Christian" dating targeting pagans; not sure if it was selling dating, or Christianity, or both.... or neither.

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    So you Want to Get Married?

    What if you could find the perfect mate, someone you could live with the rest of your life, who would meet all your longings and expectations? What would that kind of match be worth to you? I think you'll agree it would be priceless! That's exactly what this book is about… finding your million dollar mate.

    Marriage is a big deal to anyone looking for that special someone with whom to spend the rest of his or her life. Everywhere I go it's on people's minds.

    During a recent visit to Chicago I struck up a chat with a taxicab driver. I said, Where are you from?

    Pakistan, he answered.

    Fascinated, I ventured a few questions to get him to open up. How can you stand this weather in Chicago? I asked casually.

    I hate it. I absolutely hate it, he retorted. I've been here fourteen years, but I'm moving to California to get away from it. At that point he grew animated and said, But first I'm going back to Pakistan to get married. After congratulating him, I asked him to tell me about his bride-to-be. He replied, I don't know her. We've never met. Our marriage has been arranged.

    My interest level intensified as I urged him to explain. He gladly continued, his eyes darting in and out of view in the rearview mirror as he navigated the congested Chicago streets. No, I've never met her he said, grinning. I'll go home and give her an engagement ring, but we're not going to rush into it. After we get engaged we'll spend time getting to know each other.

    When you say you're not going to rush into it, how long will you actually be together before you get married?

    Well, we're going to give it at least two months. That should be plenty of time.

    Wow! An arranged marriage and only two months of dating! That's how they do it in Pakistan.

    Obviously the methods for finding a mate are as numerous as there are cultures and lands.

    And options abound for anyone who chooses to begin the mate quest. People can search on-line, go to a matchmaking party, or try their hand with a tarot-card reader. I recently read about dating nightclubs designed to allow singles to meet several eligible people in one night. When the bell rings each person moves around the room and strikes up a conversation with someone of interest. Conversations are timed. After twelve minutes another bell sounds and each person shuffles to the next person. Each time the people are hoping to learn as much as they can about whatever person they happen to be talking to. And in twelve minutes the expectation is that they will be able to size that person up, get a read on the chemistry between the two of them, and by the end of the evening, narrow the choice. The results are tabulated and matches are made. Imagine that. I call it icebreaker dating!

    Even reality TV has cashed in on the business. Since so many people dream about finding that special someone, reality dating shows have struck instant gold.

    The world has grown obsessed with reality dating. First on the scene was The Bachelor, then The Bachelorette. Following that, Joe Millionaire. And soon after, Married by America and For Love or Money, and, of course, Cupid. By the time this book is printed, there'll be many more. The wildest of all is Mr. Personality! Producers drape masks over the faces of a group of guys, half of them decent looking, the other less than handsome, parade them in front of an eligible woman, and say, OK, you pick, but you'll never know what they look like until you've made your decision. Now that's what I call a blind date!

    Unreal Expectations of a Reality Culture

    Sadly, there's nothing real about reality TV. Especially in the dating craze. A journalist writing for the Christian Science Monitor interviewed a group of singles as they watched back-to-back episodes of these wild dating games. The article chronicles their reactions and reveals the unreality of reality TV:

    While the unscripted TV craze now includes everything from celebrity moles in Hawaii to Allen Funt [Candid Camera] versions of high school reunions, dating remains a popular topic for the genre. This week two new shows debuted to predictably high ratings for a culture always fascinated by the spousal quest.… "How can you say these shows

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