The Fraternity Guy Who Hit a Wall
During college in the late 1980s, Craig Groeschel was consumed by party culture — chasing women with his fraternity brothers, living for the weekend, measuring his worth by conquest. He was popular. He was empty.
Then he met Jesus. And Jesus didn't just change his weekends — He changed his priorities.
Date Nights With God
Craig made a decision that his friends thought was insane: he would stop pursuing women entirely. For two full years. Instead, he would pursue God with the intensity he'd previously reserved for dating.
He called them "date nights with God." Time set apart. Undivided attention. The kind of focus that reshapes a man from the inside out.
Then Amy Appeared
After two years, God brought Amy into his life. She was his first Christian relationship — a relationship built not on attraction alone, but on shared worship. From their first date, they committed to attending church together weekly and practising abstinence.
They married in May 1991 and have since planted Life.Church, one of the largest churches in the United States, with over 100,000 weekly attendees across multiple campuses.
What This Means for You
Craig's story isn't about a formula. It's about exchange — trading the frantic pursuit of romance for the steady pursuit of God, and discovering that God's timing is better than ours.
Two years of saying no. Then a lifetime of saying yes.