Reply to Email Even If Not Interested?

Online Dating Reply

Pastor Jim advises whether to reply or not to reply when someone writes to you on an online dating site, and you don’t share their interest:

“My question is this…I have met people that seem to like me but the feeling isn’t mutual….we haven’t met in person or anything. Should I send an e-mail telling them that I don’t want to go further or should I just ignore them completely until they get the hint, sort of like what was done to me? I don’t know really how to react to this situation because the secular websites say to ignore them but I’m not sure if that’s the Christian thing to do. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.”