This is interesting. Cohabitation of Christian couples before marriage was once something many in my own circle of friends from high school avoided. Their values included the idea that they would simply not do it. They believed in marriage, and shared the convictions of their parents. This was the early 1960’s. Even young ladies in my school who became pregnant went home to have their child, and abortion was never part of their plan.. Those years preceded the sexual revolution, when the floodgates were opened and wrought forth a permissive society with the idea of right and wrong being blurred by new secular humanistic views and practices. These are topics the church pulpits throughout the land willfully ignored for too long. I remember a pastor of a non denominational Bible church I attended in the 1990’s who was asked by a divorced couple who attended briefly, if he would perform a marriage in the following year. They were evidently cohabitating and did want to be married, but the date was in the distant. They liked the church, an old white clapboard structure with a familiar bell tower, built over 100 years ago. The pastor politely told them he would not conduct a marriage ceremony for them on that basis, because they wanted to continue to live together until they were ready. The couple looked disappointed, and never returned to the church again. This elderly pastor valued the word of God in the topic, and said what had to be said. Perhaps, the society which wants its own way will bring the world into the church, and bearing some responsibility for this state are the pastors who remain silent, rather than offend.