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Dating & Godly Relationships in sermons

Dating & Godly Relationships comes up in 1.9% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in United Church of Christ (4.7%), United Methodist (3.7%), Mennonite (3.5%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (2.9% of sermons, up from 1.4%).

1.9% of sermons952 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about dating, guard your heart, a godly relationship, purity before marriage, equally yoked. Part of Love, Family & Relationships. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%2%4%6%8%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 1.0%Progressive 2017: 0.6%Progressive 2018: 2.0%Progressive 2019: 0.6%Progressive 2020: 1.5%Progressive 2021: 1.0%Progressive 2022: 1.3%Progressive 2023: 2.4%Progressive 2024: 2.4%Progressive 2025: 2.6%Progressive 2026: 0.9%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 3.0%Mainline 2019: 5.0%Mainline 2020: 2.3%Mainline 2021: 0.2%Mainline 2022: 0.4%Mainline 2023: 4.4%Mainline 2024: 6.1%Mainline 2025: 6.0%Mainline 2026: 3.9%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 4.8%Black church 2024: 5.4%Black church 2025: 4.0%Black church 2026: 2.1%Evangelical 2016: 6.8%Evangelical 2017: 2.7%Evangelical 2018: 2.8%Evangelical 2019: 2.0%Evangelical 2020: 1.8%Evangelical 2021: 0.7%Evangelical 2022: 0.7%Evangelical 2023: 2.0%Evangelical 2024: 1.6%Evangelical 2025: 3.4%Evangelical 2026: 2.5%All churches 2016: 2.8%All churches 2017: 1.5%All churches 2018: 2.4%All churches 2019: 1.5%All churches 2020: 1.6%All churches 2021: 0.7%All churches 2022: 1.0%All churches 2023: 2.5%All churches 2024: 3.0%All churches 2025: 3.4%All churches 2026: 2.7%

By denomination

United Church of Christ: 4.7% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ4.7%United Methodist: 3.7% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist3.7%Mennonite: 3.5% of 227 sermonsMennonite3.5%African Methodist Episcopal: 2.8% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal2.8%Christian / non-denominational: 2.6% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational2.6%Unitarian Universalist: 1.6% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist1.6%Baptist: 1.1% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist1.1%Jewish: 0.8% of 242 sermonsJewish0.8%Presbyterian: 0.7% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.7%Lutheran: 0.6% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.6%Unity: 0.4% of 844 sermonsUnity0.4%Episcopal: 0.2% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.2%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%

All churches: 1.9%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Dating & Godly Relationships more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

Divorce & Broken Relationships ×3.8Marriage ×2.9Faith & Mental Health ×2.7Addiction & Recovery ×2.6Shame & Guilt ×2.2Parenting & Children ×2.1Fear & Anxiety ×1.8Hope & Encouragement ×1.8

Churches that preach it most

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Share of transcribed sermons on Divining with at least one chapter on a theme, from Divining’s topic segmenter; 2016 to Nov 2026. Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Site map · Divining: a deeper search for meaning · build_seo_pages v0.0.1