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Summary: Well written!
Review: I am a twenty year old female and I found this book to be very well written and encouraging. The author was only my age when he wrote this book, but I was amazed how well he combined scriptural truths with today's issues. A must read!
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Summary: Praise God for bringing this book into my life!
Review: I happened across this book by accident and I really felt the Holy Spirit telling me that I needed to read this book. As I began to read, I saw God areas of life that weren't pleasing to God and that I needed to change my attitude and trust God to run my life. I also found that I was taking principles from this book and applying them to other areas of my life. I consider this a must-read for anyone who is single and is looking for that special someone, but ESPECIALLY to teenagers who are just starting and have the world's view of dating. There is a better way! Just trust in God because he knows what is best for you. After all, he created you and loves you unconditionally.
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Summary: THE TIME OF SURRENDER.
Review: "I kissed dating goodbye" is clear to the point. It is a book which can solidify one's ideas about dating or change them. The clarity with which the subject is presented is enriching. The challenge is if the reader is ready to raise his or her standards as high as God requires. Pertinent reasons are presented to help reach a decision. "I kissed dating goodbye" rids us from an unnecessary load. This is a life changing book. You will read it and remember it.
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Summary: Definitely What We Need to Read
Review: This book has taken my breath away. For years, I was searching for the answers; and God has directed this young man to write this book. "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" has inspired me to stand up for my values, no matter what this corrupting society may believe is right. We need to learn to stand up for our faith -- no matter what the cost. Afterall, this world will perish, God is infinite. We need to learn to set up high standards and absolutes. Joshua Harris has proved to me that we are not the only ones out there, and change needs to begin with us. I have kissed dating goodbye, and am proud of it. I know that God will see my heart and honor my desires. It takes discipline and character to be able to carry this out. You have to read this book to yourself. I have passed this book to practically everyone I know. I get the same results everytime. At first, you're reluctant because of the title, but once you read the whole thing, it blows you away. I know. The first time I read this book, I could not put it down. I read the whole thing in one day. Don't be afraid to stand against the tide. Change needs to happen in this world. This book shows a very good way to do that. You have to read this.
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Summary: This Book Can Change Lives!!!
Review: I Kissed Dating Goodbye is a Great book!!! I myself have never dated (before I read this book) for the same reasons that are in this book, but still it gave me good reasons not to date. It shows how God wants Courtship instead of dating. This is truly an amazing book. Thank you Joshua Harris for wrighing this book. I love it and you will too. So get I kissed Dating Goodbye. READ IT!!!
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Summary: What are we giving God
Review: On page 52 Harris asks, "Am I giving God my best.?" That line is the only lucid, erudite, wise, line of the entire book. Sure Harris outlines a noble lifestyle, one that could help if more people implemented it into their lifes. I have a few qualms with I kissed dating goodbye, below is a list of them. 1) Harris presupposes that humans are depraved. Yes, there are a few bad apples, but not all of us are corrupt. Implicit in the pages of I kissed dating goodbye is a contempt for human nature. While misguided, I cannot accept that Humanity is naturally bad. 2) Poor theology. Often the evangelical speakers have a stock vocabulary that if scrutinized borders between calvinism and devotional theology. "I don't get in the way of what God is doing." "He's shaping and molding her into something special." Both lines are from the book. This seems to me to contradict the question in the foreword and echo the tenets of calvinsim. Check his scripture usage and you'll find that it also isn't too expertly done(though some slack can be cut because all denominations have their own interpretations of scripture and thus can't agree). 3) He quits on the reader. Page 205, "The Bible doesn't provide a one size fits all program for moving from friendship to marriage." Relating to the above, I was surprised by this because Harris had demonstrated remarkable creativity in justifiy his views with biblical verses that I was dumbfounded that he could not find a verse supporting his beliefs here. Basically it amounts to this: Harris diagrams a great philosophy. His execution is horid. Harris cannot be held culpable for I kissed dating goodbye. Christians should read the BIBLE to find their answers instead of having someone interpret it. So go on, pick up the good book, turn to Matthew and start reading. It'll be the best thing you ever did.
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Summary: I Kissed "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" Goodbye
Review: There are lots of good reasons to read this book, but don't expect a mature, well thought out Christian viewpoint to emerge. Josh Harris relies mainly on anecdotal evidence (John and Suzy started dating, John and Suzy had sex, therefore don't date) and leaves much to be desired. I appreciate his urge for caution and abstinence, but overall there are far better books on Christian dating.
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Summary: GREAT!
Review: This book is great! I my self has never (in my life) dated for the same reasons in this book. So I agree with Joshua Harris 100%. I love how it shows the difference between dating and courtship, and how God prefers courtship rather than dating. This book can change your life. So go and get I Kissed Dating Goodbye. READ IT!
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Summary: What does it do for others?
Review: Maybe I'm just one of the oddball 16 year olds who found this book to be nothing more than a reminder of how twisted our society is. I take it upon myself, strengthened every day through God, to resist temptations when I date. Why change words around to please the Christian fancy. If all teens were raised and taught to be as devoted to abstinance as I, then the problem would be solved. Do you expect to hand this book to the atheist neighbor and watch it to change his life and views? No, but as a devoted Christian, I CAN witness my views and beleifs to my teen friends, which will have much more of an impact than reading this book will. I find this book to be well written, but it lacks guidance on making the current situation better. Only people who read this book and change leave others to wonder, "Why can't you just be devoted and let others see you aren't going to change to fit societies mishaps?" Thats what I thought when I first heard of this book, and after reading it only strengthens that view.
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Summary: Some people completely miss the point...
Review: I have to laugh at all these people who criticize the book/the author/those who agree with it, stating that they are being rigid and legalistic. To those who think that - *you* are the ones who are taking everything far too literally and not looking at the overall picture. The bottom line of this book is that when you focus on *God's* will for your life, and not your own, the rest of the stuff will fall in place. The problems come when we try to compartmentalize God, telling Him that he is in control in one area of our life, but not in another, as most Christians tend to do when dating *That* is the message I feel that Harris is conveying with this book. Now, to my rating of three stars - the ideas in the book are good, but the way in which they are presented leave much to be desired... Check out "When God Writes your Love Story" for a clearer, more concise version of a similar viewpoint. And for the guy who made the God/job analogy - I trusted God to lead me to my first job, and I've now been there for 4 years and doing very well, thank you. No, I didn't sit at home waiting for the phone to ring, but I didn't spend every waking moment worrying about it, or jumping from job to job trying to find the perfect one. It came along in God's own time.
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