Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex Does God Really Care if We Move in Together?, #598
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Mar 2, 2026 Joe Caruso, a pastor offering practical counsel on dating and covenant relationships, and Hannah Nitz, a conversational voice on relationships with a recognizable laugh, tackle living together before marriage. They explore why cohabitation rose in culture. They discuss pastoral responses, covenant versus convenience, the sliding versus deciding mindset, and options for repairing cohabiting relationships.
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Cohabitation Undermines Covenant
- Cohabitation before marriage is treated as sinful because it takes God's gift of sexual intimacy outside the covenant He designed.
- Joe Caruso argues living together often signals “I want God's gift before I'm ready,” replacing covenant with convenience and undermining divine intent.
Pastor Turned Down Weddings Over Cohabitation Attitudes
- Joe Caruso recounts turning down weddings when couples' attitudes show they don't value God-ordained marriage.
- He describes conversations where couples ghost him or choose another officiant after he presses on covenant seriousness.
Covenant Explains Sex And Marriage
- God designed sex and marriage around covenant to create long-term security and mutual commitment.
- Juli Slattery and Joe Caruso link rising cohabitation to a cultural loss of covenant thinking, producing weaker relational commitments.
