Authors: Joshua Harris
ISBN-13: 9781590521359, ISBN-10: 1590521358
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: Updated
Joshua Harris lives outside Washington, D.C., in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he's a pastor at Covenant Life Church. His greatest passion is preaching the gospel and calling his generation to wholehearted devotion to God. Each January he leads a national conference for singles called New Attitude.
Sisters, Oregon (May, 2005) - Multnomah Publishers announced today the national number one bestseller, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua Harris, has exceeded sales of 1 million copies last month. The popular benchmark book for Christian singles has been on the ECPA Bestseller List since 1998, and was first released eight years ago this month.
Multnomah has since published additional ancillary products including an audio recording, study guide, and video series for I Kissed Dating Goodbye, and launched an updated version of the book in 2003. The book has also been translated into over fifteen languages and been a bestseller in countries like Germany and Korea.
I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its call for sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the book which all others are compared to on Christian dating and courtship. It challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives.
"The book points out the problems with today's recreational romance," Harris says, "but what I've heard most from readers is that ultimately dating isn't the point-the book is about who God is and what it means to trust him with our love lives. And I think that's what has helped people the most."
"Who would have thought that a twenty-one-year-old kid-sorry, Josh-would write a book that would eventually sell a million copies-and counting? The response to Josh's book reflects the desire of his generation to not be counted among the casualties of the relationally damaged and want nothing to interfere with their relationship to God," says Don Jacobson, Multnomah president and publisher.
Joshua Harris has also authored, Boy Meets Girl, Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is), and Stop Dating the Church.
Foreword by Rebecca St. James | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
Part One: I Kissed Dating Goodbye | |
1. Smart Love | 17 |
Beyond What Feels Good, Back to What Is Good | |
2. The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Dating | 29 |
Recognizing Dating's Negative Tendencies | |
3. A New Attitude | 45 |
Five Attitude Changes to Help You Avoid Defective Dating | |
Part Two: The Heart of the Matter | |
4. Looking Up "Love" in God's Dictionary | 55 |
Learning the True Definition of Love | |
5. The Right Thing at the Wrong Time Is the Wrong Thing | 73 |
How to Keep Impatience from Robbing You of | |
the Gift of Singleness | |
6. The Direction of Purity | 87 |
How to Get on the Road to Righteousness | |
7. A Cleansed Past: The Room | 103 |
How Jesus Can Redeem Your Past | |
Part Three: Building A New Lifestyle | |
8. Starting with a Clean Slate | 111 |
Four Important Steps for Getting on Track with God'sPlan | |
9. Just Friends in a Just-Do-It World | 121 |
Keys for Keeping Your Relationships with the | |
Opposite Sex out of the "Romantic Zone" | |
10. Guard Your Heart | 133 |
How to Fight the Pollutants of Lust, | |
Infatuation, and Self-Pity | |
11. "You Don't Date? What Are You,Nuts?" | 149 |
What to Do When People Ask Why You | |
Don't Play the Dating Game | |
Part Four: Now What? | |
12. Redeeming the Time | 163 |
Making the Most of Your Singleness | |
13. Ready for the Sack but Not for the Sacrifice | 177 |
How to Have a Biblical and Realistic Vision of Marriage | |
14. What Matters at Fifty? | 189 |
Character Qualities and Attitudes that | |
Matter Most in a Life Partner | |
15. Principled Romance | 203 |
Principles that Can Guide You from Friendship to Matrimony | |
16. Someday I'll Have a Story to Tell | 223 |
Writing a Love Story You'll Feel Proud to Tell | |
Notes | 229 |
Acknowledgments | 233 |
About the Author | 235 |