You will be blessed when you read Passion and Purity. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. I read a lot of books, and enjoy most of them, but few are special enough to read over and over again. I just finished reading Passion and Purity for the second time, and it was worth every minute. Elisabeth Elliot has been there, done that, and offers time-tested advice and wisdom that applies to all of us. Using letters, diary journals, and memories from her five-year courtship with Jim she shows us an example of what it means to love Christ more than each other, and to give His plans priority over yours. Right, how far is too far, and surrendering our desires to God. In Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control, Elisabeth Elliot tells her own moving love story. Can one love passionately and still remain pure? The answer is a resounding yes. Back cover.You may be wondering how "passion" and "purity" even belong in the same title together. Passion and Purity gives direction in such areas as: singleness or marriage putting God's desires ahead of personal desires what men look for in a woman virginity and chastity the man's and woman's role in relationships dating. These revealing personal glimpses, combined with relevant biblical teaching, may help to remind you that only by putting your human passion and desire through his fire can God purify your love. It seemed impossible that the torrent of passion could be brought into the calm river of Gods purposes for Jim or for me, but I prayed for it anyway. She teaches this often-painful, yet rewarding discipline by candidly tracing her love story with Jim Elliot to "serve as evidence that I've been there." Through letters, diary entries, and recollections, she shares the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose commitment to Christ takes priority over their love for each other. Purity freedom from contamination, from anything that would spoil the taste or the pleasure, reduce the power, or in any way ruin what the thing was meant to be. In Passion and Purity, she emphasizes the need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait upon him. How did you handle the impatience of wanting to be with the man you loved? What is our role as single women - waiting around? How shall I know if this woman is right for me? These and many more questions are asked of Elisabeth Elliot in response to her books and seminar appearances. Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity.ġ8 What Providence Has Gone and Done 82 -Ĥ1 This Is Our God-We Have Waited for Him 176.She teaches this often-painful, yet rewarding discipline by candidly tracing her love story with Jim Elliot to "serve as evidence that I've been there." Through letters, diary entries, and recollections, she shares the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose commitment to Christ takes priority over their love for each other. How did you handle the impatience of wanting to be with the man you loved? What is our role as single women - waiting around? How shall I know if this woman is right for me? These and many more questions are asked of Elisabeth Elliot in response to her books and seminar appearances. Passion and Purity includes honest, biblical direction on these important matters of the heart: loving passionately while remaining sexually pure whether or.
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