Posted on Feb 7, 2013 | by Sharayah Colter
NASHVILLE (BP) -- True Love Waits morphed from a nameless concept in
coffee break conversations into a movement that, beginning in February
1993, steadily spread to teenagers across the country.
That month, 53 youth at Tulip Grove Baptist Church committed themselves to sexual abstinence before marriage.
In
the 20 years since, millions of teenagers have followed suit, bringing
abstinence to the national conversation and strengthening innumerable
marriages before they ever began.
The grassroots movement calling
teenagers to make commitments of purity celebrated its local-church
anniversary with a True Love Waits-themed Disciple Now weekend Feb. 1-3
at the Nashville-area church where the first group of Tulip Grove
students made a True Love Waits pledge.
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