Josh Harris, Author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye", Also Kisses Christianity Goodbye

PJ Media ^ | 07/27/2019 | Tyler O' Neill

[Vision]

“he had kissed Christianity goodbye”

Damn fool. Good luck you’ll need it.

James 1:6 New International Version (NIV)
6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

[ReformedBeckite]

Another example of somebody whose faith was a mile wide...and an inch deep.

For him it is more like the thickness of a dollar bill, or stack of dollar bills.

[arthurus]

Sexual Revolution

[ctdonath2]

I suppose the original book was an honest, if overwrought, attempt to do right.
I can see promoting & defending the imperfect doctrine for so many years, between the impassioned adherents and vitriolic naysayers, would prove completely draining.
Laudable attempt, but he just burned out.

[SoFloFreeper]

not good.

[SoFloFreeper]

1 John 2:19 applies.

[ReformedBeckite]

I'm not good at jpg's or gif's.

I see him as an honest guy who was involved in a certain Christian Culture of fake cultural Christianity that he has gotten tired off and is now shaking off his Christianity and moving on to more profitable adventures as in more $$$ in the liberal immoral cultures, I suspect him to get caught up in the LGBTQ or what ever the letters are now days and go on speaking tours talking about the fake cultural Christianity he has been in for these many years, being paid for by some liberal like George Soros, I know I have exaggerated in this comment and may be way off, but the popularity cultural Christianity if full of people that make bundles of money off of other Christians because they can whether they are serious in it or not.

[newfreep]

Joshie looks like he rejected Christ and chose satan and the homosexual lifestlye.

Just another lost soul....

[dangus]

Maybe they should’ve dated. Got to know each other a little, just not in the biblical sense.

[PapaBear3625]

It seems fairly obvious to me that the search for the perfect “soulmate” would likely be an excuse to divorce the imperfect person that most people are married to, and which we ourselves are.

In my experience, there are no "soulmates". You have people who are willing to make an effort to make their spouse happy, and those who are not, and if you find somebody willing to make an effort for you, and you are willing to make an effort in return, then you will have a good life.

What is love? IMHO, it is the willingness to make an effort, or pay a price, for the happiness and well-being of another.

[ravenwolf]

You have his book, how much does he get for one? does not sound like he has changed, except in how he makes his fortune, he knows who the fools are.

[Chickensoup]

Actually I kissed Dating Goodbye was a good book and timely. It taught young men and women that they were not meat, that they were both bodies and souls and needed to get to know the person they were interested in, spend time with that person and their family to really get to know them, to focus on their personalities and their hearts.

None bad things.

There was no prosperity gospel in his book, there was the hope that these steps would lead to more stable marriages.

Some people twisted his book’s premise to meet their own agendas, controlling parents, and people without grace, for example.

Everyone has to go on his or her own Walk.

The gracelessness of the responses here, especially those who have no idea of the work, is painfully astounding.

[Chickensoup]

Actually I kissed Dating Goodbye was a good book and timely. It taught young men and women that they were not meat, that they were both bodies and souls and needed to get to know the person they were interested in, spend time with that person and their family to really get to know them, to focus on their personalities and their hearts.

None bad things.

There was no prosperity gospel in his book, there was the hope that these steps would lead to more stable marriages.

Some people twisted his book’s premise to meet their own agendas, controlling parents, and people without grace, for example.

Everyone has to go on his or her own Walk.

The gracelessness of the responses here, especially those who have no idea of the work, is painfully astounding.

[Jim Noble]

It is true that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people have been mistreated by the church in the past

People who write like this assert the above as if it is a well-known fact.

[ConservativeMind]

Thank you, and I completely agree!

[ConservativeMind]

Actually, his book was decent and encouraged a conservative approach to getting married.

Until recent years, there were matchmakers in most all religions. Parents would choose a small group of potential spouses and you would meet with these people under supervision. These marriages would rarely wind up in divorce.

Today, we have people who sleep around and, when married, often get divorced.

Which approach is better for all parties involved? The latter has created a 50% total population venereal disease issue.

[Lee N. Field]

Josh Harris, Author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye", Also Kisses Christianity Goodbye

Saw that.

This announcement hit me like a ton of bricks. As an impressionable Christian teen,

For me, somewhere in midlife, it was just another book, just another thing people were talking about. Look away for a few minutes, and something new will take its place.

By condemning the Bible's stance against homosexual activity and its definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, Harris has condemned a key teaching of Christianity as "exclusion and bigotry."

As with others here, and noting how he presents himself on his own website, I wouldn't be surprised if he declosets.

Would not be the first, doubt it will be the last, trainwreck life.

[moovova]

He wrote “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” in 1997.

He’s divorcing his wife of 21 years (2019?).

2019-21=1998.

So he gave up dating when he got married.

Mighty white of him.

[ravenwolf]

Ok, I must have taken it wrong, I thought it was talking
about books he was writing in quest for a life other than
Christianity.

Guess I am guity of not reading.

[ravenwolf]

Ok, I jumped to conclusions with out really reading the thread, sorry about that, I need make sure I know what I am reading.