Ciara and Russell Wilson are dating and abstinent

Russell Wilson ended months of speculation about whether he is dating Ciara during an interview with Pastor Miles McPherson at San Diego's Rock Church on Sunday. But the bigger surprise from the interview was the news that the couple is abstaining from sex for religious reasons.

"I said to her – and she completely agreed – 'Can we love each other without that?' " the Seattle Seahawks quarterback, 26, said in the interview. "If you can love somebody without that, then you can really love somebody."

Wilson then half-joked to the audience that he needed their prayers that the relationship goes well.

"I'm not going to lie, I need you all to pray for me," he said. People