I Kissed Dating Goodbye | Joshua Harris | I Gave the Book a Chance

I Kissed Dating Goodbye | Joshua Harris | Mostly good with partly scattered bad

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	I Kissed Dating Goodbye Joshua Harris Multnomah Books, 2003 - 238 pages average customer review:based on 531 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I Gave the Book a Chance

This book really took me by surprise. It includes concepts about relationships and dating that I'd never thought of or even heard of. The book is a page-turner, concise, and powerfully inspiring. I definitely recommend it to individuals who want to go higher in God!

Mostly good with partly scattered bad

After years of scoffing at Joshua Harris and the idea that dating could indeed be the wrong track, I read his book. I must say that there was a lot more to it than I'd expected to find. Harris seems to be saying that you can have fun, you can spend time with members of the opposite sex and you can even be attracted to others; but you should only seek exclusive relationships with the full (and disclosed) intent of marriage. The "perks" of marriage should only come when you are willing to sacrifice and truly love. These things ultimately manifest themselves in commitment (i.e. marriage vows). Though the majority of the book is good I will say that I think Harris tends to relegate celibacy to third-rate status (and this between two options). I truly believe celibacy is left out of most every marriage discussion, despite the fact that Paul puts his support behind it in opposition to marriage. This is a huge place for a book of this nature to fail. When Harris makes the basis of his logic in the book love for and service to others above your self because of one's love for and service to Christ, celibacy should not be forgotten. It is a valid option that too often is viewed as a burden and not a gift. There are probably sitting in their youth groups hearing about how great sex and marriage are, and feeling like crap because they've just realized that God may not have a mate for them and they are going to be lonely and incomplete for the rest of their lives. Granted this situation will always happen to someone, but the fact is that the body of Christ should do everything that they can to encourage those who feel that they are being compelled celibacy, or maybe they just aren't too terribly compelled toward marriage. This is certainly something that we should expect from a book that claims to be, and is on many fronts, touting a revolutionary manner of thinking about pre-marital relationships.

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