I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Read if you're interested in relationships, marriage, or books for young adult.
This book advocates for a courtship model over conventional dating, encouraging young Christians to pursue purity and intentionality with the goal of marriage, often by avoiding one-on-one romantic relationships before a clear commitment. It aims to protect hearts and honor God in relational pursuits.
- — Emphasizes purity and sexual integrity before marriage, a core biblical principle.
- — Promotes intentionality and a serious approach to relationships, focusing on marriage as the goal.
- — Encourages seeking godly counsel and parental involvement in relational decisions.
- — It can create an unrealistic and isolating expectation, discouraging healthy social interaction between genders.
- — The 'no dating' stance, while well-intentioned, could fail to equip individuals with skills for navigating pre-marital relationships or discerning a potential spouse.
- — Harris himself has publicly disavowed and apologized for some of the book's core teachings, acknowledging its negative impact on many.
Christian readers should approach this book with extreme caution, recognizing its significant historical impact but also its considerable flaws and the author's own repentance. It is best read critically, perhaps as a historical artifact, rather than a prescriptive guide for modern relationships, and certainly not without external biblical counsel.
“Christian readers should approach this book with extreme caution, recognizing its significant historical impact but also its considerable flaws and the author's own repentance. It is best read critically, perhaps as a historical artifact, rather than a prescriptive guide for modern relationships, and certainly not without external biblical counsel.”
- —Emphasizes purity and sexual integrity before marriage, a core biblical principle.
- —Promotes intentionality and a serious approach to relationships, focusing on marriage as the goal.
- —Encourages seeking godly counsel and parental involvement in relational decisions.
- —Highlights the importance of community and accountability in navigating romantic relationships.
- —Challenges the casual and often self-centered nature of modern dating.
- —It can create an unrealistic and isolating expectation, discouraging healthy social interaction between genders.
- —The 'no dating' stance, while well-intentioned, could fail to equip individuals with skills for navigating pre-marital relationships or discerning a potential spouse.
- —Harris himself has publicly disavowed and apologized for some of the book's core teachings, acknowledging its negative impact on many.
- —It often blurs the lines between biblical principles and cultural preferences, presenting the latter as the former.
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