I Kissed Dating Goodbye

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Summary: Awesome new perspective!
Review: This book was totally awesome! I am seventeen years old and have been through one bad breakup already and I don't want anymore of this. Reading Joshua's book, which was written when he was single and had dated through high school, gave me a whole new perspective on how I need to view guys and relationships in general. I look at my past relationship and realized that in the end, I only hurt this dear friend of mine and drew him away from God through our relationship. Now, I'm not saying that everyone should just not date, I'm just saying that we all need to take into account the feelings and relationship with God of the other person. It is an eye-opening concept and can be life-changing if you allow him to speak to you without you getting defensive about what he has to say.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I'm still in the process of reading this book, I'm almost finished. But what I've read really changed the way I look at dating. It's not everything I thought it was cut out to be. This book offers a great alternative to the world's version of dating. It's Awesome!!

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Summary: Irrelevent, Bogus, Idiotic.
Review: "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" is a really stupid book that will only confuse Christians and normal people alike. I'm a Baptist preacher's son, so I read the book with mucn interest, the result was me seeing Joshua Harris is an empty-headed momma's boy. This formula here is totally dum and illogical for today's times. What does Harris know about dating? He married his high school sweetheart! He lives like an Amish person and not like someone living in the real world. I shudder to think what he's kids are going to be like. I totally agree with dating because it helps you socially. Harris claims that not dating will help you avoid much personal pain. What a loon! Everyone will experience some personal pain in their life at some point! Besides it makes you smarter, wiser, and more careful. I urge Christian men and women alike to not take this book seriously because it's totally bogus. It's only for people living in those over-conservative families. "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" should be kissed bye bye. This guy can't even write good and talks a load of over-conservative bull. He clearly doesn't understand the Bible or isn't even deep about anything in his "faith." "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" is trash for those who are really desperate. What's the deal with not holding hands? That's stupid. I saw a special about him in Dateline NBC and saw how their families followed them around when they went out! That's dumb. A couple should be able to have privacy to speak openly to themselves and have intimicy together, now that's real love.

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Summary: Wisdom for our day
Review: Pushing sixty, I have "been there, done that" and how I wish I had been as wise as this young man! For most of us, it's "too soon alt, too late schmart." Read and heed. Dating is not necessary. It is not even advisable. You won't miss anything! You'll gain in the long run. We need to break out of our culture's mindset that the purpose of life is to have fun. Pursuing pleasure only drives it away. See C.S. Lewis. My only reservation about this book is whether the ones who need it most will buy into it. The negative comments above reinforce my impression, that Harris has the real goods, but will fail to convince many readers.

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Summary: great book
Review: this was an awesome book! im so glad i read it..it helped me a lot when i was having some personal relationship problems. now im healed from the book and from God. thank Josh for writing it, and thank God that i read it.

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Summary: MAN OH MAN
Review: first off i'm a 16 year old GIRL and i thought this book was amazing...i read this right after i was saved and it really brought me closer in my relationship with God. and even though i didn't stop dating, i definately look at it in a whole other light, and accept is as a privelage from god...not a right to be taken advantage of

mmmmm anyhow, i love this book

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Summary: New Zealand loves this book
Review: This book is like the Bible Ha Ha. If God had thought about writing a section on dating in the BIble it would sound something like this book. Joshua Harris teaches Godly principles that all need to know. This message is God's heart. I totally agree with him. get it!!!!!!

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Summary: Incredible life-changing look at God's standards of purity
Review: Joshua Harris is an wonderful author and speaker who loves the Lord with all his heart, soul, and mind. His strongest desire is for all people (children and adults) to change their outlook on romance and dating, God's view of love and sex, and on their behavior. I've read his book three times in the past two years. God has worked through Joshua's book to change my perspective on relationships with guys. I've been able to apply the principles that Joshua discusses in my daily life. By focusing on friendship with guys as brothers in Christ, instead of people to pursue for a romantic relationship, my relationship with the Lord has moved to a different level. I'm more concerned with doing what the Lord wants me to do, rather than trying my hardest to get a guy to notice me. It's tough to remember this on a daily basis, but Joshua's book is such an encouragement and such a radical approach to relationships. It's a must-read for all ages (9 and up).

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Summary: A Book That Created Paranoia in My Female Christian Friends
Review: This book in esence does lack the reality of what life is. Joshua Harris's points are totally unsupported. The only reason that I read this book, was that the Minister of the college group at church wife, endorsed it, and had every female there reading. The result of which was a whole group of women now paranoid about dating someone.

To me, Joshua Harris's coments are unfounded and are only his opinion. If, I remember his past correctly, he never really did date. He just ended up marrying his highschool sweetheart. That is not going to be the case with many of us.

Most of his suggestions are quite vague to be honest. For example, the idea of group dating, he never states an aproximation of what the group size should be.

Secondly, another point of his is that if you are interested in someone, then go out with them after your group date or excuse yourself. There is only one problem with this, most couples do not want others to know about their interest in one another right away. However, if the two of you, are the only ones to leave the group during the group date everyone else in the group will know that the two of you have an interest in one another.

This book, has created a whole lot of paranoia with the women in the Bible study at the church that I attend. Many of the women in group thought that I was women crazy, just for asking if they would like to go out for ice cream. For Jousha Harris my repsones to my reaction, is that I was hitting on her, with some alterier motive in the back of my mind.

All I know, is that if Joshua Harris's principles are applied to other aspects of our life, we would never get anywhere.

Why apply or send out resumes for jobs, God will provide one anyway so why bother. The results of your actions may only bring heartache, you may hate the job, you may get laid off or worse yet even fired.

The book states that everything that God does in your life in terms of opening doors he states clearly that this is the door that he is opening for you. This not always the case, and many times we miss it.

In conclusion, I am reminded of a story of a man whose boat capsized in a storm. The man yelled out God save me. Just then another boat came by and offered to pull in the boat. The said back, no thanks my God will save me. Another boat comes by and another he gives them all the same responses.

Finnally the man ends up drowning. Upon arriving into Heaven the man asks God why he didn't save him. God's response to him; "What were all those people in boats that I sent to you."

This is Joshua Harris's problem, he tells everyone that God's responses come out right and clear. The problem with this view is that many times he responses come in the form of the doors that he open's for us.

If one is to take Joshua Harris's comments literally. He or she may miss out of a lot of things God has for us, by not using the doors which he has opened for us.

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Summary: It must work!
Review: Joshua Harris' book I Kissed Dating Goodbye is very imformative and opinionated. He gives Godly advise on love and life using the bible and personal experiance. It must work, because Harris is now married, despite the fact that he didn't date.

i do not agree with everything he had to say, but i apreciate the fresh opinion from a young point of view. the book was well written, if a little slow to begin with, it picks up by the end, giving practical advise for our times.