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| Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control | 
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Sales Rank: 14585
Category: Book
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher: Revell
Studio: Revell
Manufacturer: Revell
Label: Revell
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0800758188
Dewey Decimal Number: 241.66
EAN: 9780800758189
ASIN: 0800758188
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Product Description
Very few books on dating have stood the test of time like Passion and Purity. Its much-needed message remains strong and hopeful in an age when doing whatever "feels right" is common practice. Using her own life as an example, Elisabeth Elliot guides singles of both genders and of any age on how to put their love lives under the authority of Jesus Christ. Passion and Purity covers dating issues such as: ?how to know which person is the right one to marry ?loving passionately while remaining sexually pure ?the man's and woman's role in relationships ?putting God's desires ahead of personal desires ?how far is too far, physically This best-selling book now has a new cover, an updated interior design, and a foreword from popular author Joshua Harris. Quest for Love will be redesigned in a similar manner to help readers identify the books as a pair. While Passion and Purity shares the love story of Elisabeth and Jim, Quest for Love is a compilation of stories on how other men and women discovered love through God's direction. Together, these two remarkable books accentuate our need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait on his timing.
Amazon.com Review
Elisabeth Elliot's story centers around one pivotal question: "Does God want everything?" Her emphatic answer--"Yes"--is what makes Passion and Purity the foremost Christian book on dating ever written. Based on stories, journal entries, and letters chronicling her own five-year courtship with Jim Elliot, she gives frank advice, scriptural directives, and compassionate examples of what it means to follow Christ in the midst of heartache and impatience. The perfect antidote for those who flounder in the thinking that "the Bible doesn't say anything about dating," Elliot's short chapters are filled with nuggets of wisdom that spell out exactly the opposite. "Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept His lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love live, will reveal the heart's truth." Whether in a dating relationship, married, or pursuing a call to single life, readers will find Elliot's message challenging them to a true faith in a Christ who lovingly calls us to surrender all. --Courtenay Kehn
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Very Good Read September 23, 2008
This a a really good book. It's information shared from a different era but it is still pertainent for today's youth and much needed. In the dateing arena.
 This book was in exceptional quality and is an excellent read! June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is exceptionally well written. I would recommend to anyone waiting for the Lord to provide someone to love. It is honest and real about the struggle we all must face when finding the person who God has for us.
Must Read March 31, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book over and over again in high school. Now that I am graduating college and getting married soon, I find that her principles, based on Scripture, stand the test of time.
Some people call her book dated. But the concepts are not.
Read this book and change your life March 19, 2008
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In a dark world, Elisabeth Elliot's timeless words shed much needed light on the subject of sex, relationships and waiting on God. I read this book over 22 years ago while in my mid thirties and it literally changed my life. Not only is this book a must read for singles of any age, but I highly recommend it for mature teenagers! Elisabeth Elliot's works will never lose their impact! I've loaned or purchased this book for countless women and newly engaged couples over the years and have gotten great feedback!
Honest, Gutsy, and Real February 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Passion and Purity is by far the most helpful book I have ever read on "learning to bring your love life under Christ's control" (its subtitle). Elisabeth Elliot honestly and touchingly pens her love story with Jim Elliot (who was later martyred while ministering to the Waorani Indians in Ecuador). They spent five years knowing they were in love, yet not knowing whether it was God's will for them to remain single permanently. Their struggles and forbearance during that time form the backdrop for the truths Elliot shares throughout the book.
Most of all, this book is about God. The horizontal principles it instills are secondary. The "passion" is human, but most of all it is passion for God, a burning passion that filled the lives of both of these two young people. Their desires to follow and please Him were stronger than love, and stronger than death.
But this commitment to Christ flowed into their relationship with each other, governing their passion and giving them the grace and strength to maintain purity. Elisabeth Elliot does not hesitate to give simple, straightforward advice about the way relationships should look, of what women should expect from men, and of what men should expect from women - advice that would doubtless be offensive to many. Yet it is so true and valuable, so clear and full of light.
She writes, "I do not want to be guilty of Pharisaism... It is the heart's direction that is always the central issue... It was the principle of love that constrained Jim and me to tread so lightly, to hold each other at arm's length, knowing we belonged first to Christ, wanting Him to have our hearts' affections before all others" (132).
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