Anah Grimaldi’s Reviews > What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter > Status Update

“A young man who looks at a marriage like a business transaction is not prepared to provide the kind of internal intimacy his pride will require”
“… it is very important to make sure suitors are interested in our daughters as individual persons…”
I see this often 🤦🏼‍♀️ esp with reformed men in matchmaking groups looking for a servant

“True repentance is the result of an accurate understanding of the significance and gravity of sin, coupled with an overwhelming desire for remission of that sin through the person and work of Christ and turning from sin and dead works to faith and obedience.”

How to know if he is a follower of Christ:
He’s regenerate: born again through Christ. The heart was changed.
He’s repentant: feels sorrows/regret for sin… change of mind, conversion from sin to God.
He’s reformed: He is a light, he bears the marks of conversion, you see it through his actions.

Common is the man who will profess Christianity with the lips but deny it with his life.
“…growing difference between those who profess Christianity and those who possess it.”

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness. There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way. (Proverbs 15:9-10)

“It is important to have healthy respect for the law of God… it is crucial for us to have a framework when thinking through issues concerning the law”- page 61

“The gospel is about much more than how we get saved and go to heaven. The gospel is about how the work of Christ is saturating every aspect of our lives…..”