Where Physical Progression Begins, Depth Progression Ends

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Holding off the physical side of the relationship, though difficult, will enable you to focus on the soul of your spouse-to-be. "Where Physical Progression Begins, Depth Progression Ends." In other words, as soon as a couple began to focus on the physical side of their relationship, the spiritual and emotional side ceased to deepen.

What's your love story?

Someday, you'll have a love story to tell. How will you respond when one day you look back on your love story? Will it bring tears of joy or tears of remorse? Will it be a story of purity, faith, and selfless love? Or will it be a story of impatience, selfishness, and compromise? I encourage you to write a love story with your life that you'll feel proud to tell.

Sharing My Sentiments

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At last, I am finished with this book. It has touched my heart greatly. I felt with Josh.

I have come to believe that the lifestyle of a short-term relationship was a detour from serving God as a single. So while I kept my social life, my male friends, and my desire to get married someday, I stopped dating.

For me, rejecting the dating game was a seismic shift.

This new perspective was anything but characteristic of me. I had always been a flirt who lived for the buzz of romance. For me, rejecting the dating game was a seismic shift.

My change of perspective began after a guy I'd been going out with for two years, broke up with me. Our relationship and the period after we broke up, was an area of life I refused to submit to God. When it all ended, He began to show me just how selfish I was. I'd hurt both him who was in that relationship with me, and him whom I'd dated in the period after the relationship.

For the first time, I really began to question how my faith as a Christian affected my love life. There had to be more to it than "don't have sex" and "only date Christians". What did it mean to truly love? What did it feel like to really be pure - in my body and my heart? And how did God want me to spend my single years? Was it merely a time to try out different guys romantically?

And as my heart changed, I saw that my lifestyle had to change, too.

Slowly and in spite of my resistance, God peeled away layer after layer of wrong thinking, wrong values, and wrong desires. He changed my heart. And as my heart changed, I saw that my lifestyle had to change, too.

P.S. If you do read up 'I Kissed Dating Goodbye', you'll realise how much Wisdom God has given Joshua Harris, aged twenty-one then, when he was writing this book. Not any regular twenty-one, without being led by the Wisdom of God, is able to write with the same level maturity.

And I pray
May more and more
See true love
Through Him who IS Love.

All Glory & Praises be unto Daddy God & Christ Jesus! ^^