There are some myths out there that people assume to be gospel about dating, especially among Christians. Today, Social media and mainstream media is showered with the news of which priest or Pastor is dating who? Media presents church dating as Anti Biblical. However, there are “Christian dating” ideas floating around that have little or nothing to do with the Biblical Teachings.
Barbrah Nahwera, 23, a 3rd year student of Makerere University, is a living example of Christian Dating with her former University Chapel (St. Francis chapel) Choir Master. When Babrah joined St. Francis Chapel in 2017, her romantic emotions couldn’t be controlled against admiring a then Chapel’s Choir Master, Martin Turigye.
According to her, the Angelic vocals of this chapel choir master crazily pierced an arrow in her heart but all her emotions met anxieties without forgetting the world laws of nature which presents men as the exclusive initiators of relationships.
This prompted her attend choir practices on a regular basis so as she would stare at his crush to relieve the affections with hopes of heavens to open up its doors for her in vain.
Babrah says, at a certain point she nearly gave up on her feelings with a common religious thinking that may be God has that one man buckled up for her to marry and waited for God to do the heavy lifting when it comes to dating a guy that God would guide her to be destined with.
A blessing in disguise was when Turigye (the choir master) got sick, as a tradition, one of the chapel members had to go and check up on him via his hostel. This being the biggest chance to reach close to her dream, Nahwera was assigned the responsibility to visit the choir master and guess what, this marked a kick start to the bond.
It’s every chic’s character to first pretend not having interests in a man’s proposal immediately. Babrah was not an exception that she first opposed Turigye’s plea giving him faked hard time.
What started as a glorification of the Lord’s name in choir turned into a friendship which later germinated into a date that is slowly but surely yielding into better fruits.
