I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris

I hope you can forgive me.”ĭespite no longer being Christian, Harris said he would not join his Christian friends “in mourning”.

“I regret standing against marriage equality, for not affirming you and your place in the church, and for any ways that my writing and speaking contributed to a culture of exclusion and bigotry.

“But I specifically want to add to this list now: To the LGBTQ+ community, I want to say that I am sorry for the views that I taught in my books and as a pastor regarding sexuality.

“I have lived in repentance for the past several years - repenting of my self-righteousness, my fear-based approach to life, the teaching of my books, my views of women in the church, and my approach to parenting to name a few. There’s beauty in that sentiment regardless of your view of God. “Martin Luther said that the entire life of believers should be repentance. Many people tell me that there is a different way to practise faith and I want to remain open to this, but I’m not there now. “By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian. “The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction’, the biblical phrase is ‘falling away’,” he wrote. In a follow-up post after his divorce announcement, Harris said he had “undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus”. Harris also admitted on Instagram that he was moving away from his Christianity after his divorce. Joshua Harris shares his story of giving up dating and discovering that God has something even better-a life of sincere love, true purity, and purposeful singleness.The book 'I Kissed Dating Goodbye' was written by Harris when he was 21. I Kissed Dating Goodbye shows what it means to entrust your love life to God. Going out? Been dumped? Waiting for a call that doesn’t come? Have you tasted pain in dating, drifted through one romance or, possibly, several of them? Honest and practical, it challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society’s norm. Now, for the first time since its release, the national #1 bestseller has been expanded with new content and updated for new readers. More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating. Joshua Harris’s first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down…and people are still talking.

I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris