World Dating:
1. Have sex on the first date. You must try it before you buy it.
You know, I just have to shut this one down. I don't know WHERE the Christian community has gotten the idea that this is normal or common in the world (maybe it's because we see it in tv shows and movies), but as someone who spent a decade or so living the worldly life, I can tell you, this is NOT normal. Maybe it was normal in the 80s, but these days? Nope. I went out on a decent number of first dates in college, and chatted up LOTS of women at parties. Of all of them, I can think of ONE that was willing to hop into bed with me on the first night meeting me (and no, I didn't). (And as some of the people here on the forums can testify, I may not be Ryan Gosling, but I'm no Jack Black, either.) While I did notice SOME people engaged in promiscuous behaviour, it was the exception, NOT the norm.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying that what we have in Christ isn't better than what the world offers. But I think if we are to properly represent Christ, we have to be honest and truthful about things...and that means being truthful about secular people as well.
This is why I insist that the word "dating" is really just semantics. Christian dating and world dating are the same thing: dating. What's dating? It's spending time with another person with the intent of a romantic connection. Oh, you don't go on dates, but you spend all your time together on the phone or on skype, and you have romantic intentions? That's dating. You had dinner and a movie five different times and kissed them on the third one? That's dating. You're spending time with someone in the church, getting to know them slowly with the hopes and intents of marrying them? THAT'S FLIPPING DATING. You can call it courting or pre-engagement or whatever fancy term you want to...it all boils down to the same thing. And whether you do it by hitting on someone at a bar, getting their number, and then grinding genitals a week or four later; or whether you do it by sitting next to the same single woman at church every year and having lunch with her family twice a week, it's STILL spending your time with someone with romantic intentions.
Short of arranged marriage (and man, could we have a field day with THAT one!), it really is just semantics.