Joshua Harris
Joshua Harris
Joshua Eugene Harrisis an American pastor and author, and is widely known as the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, in which he explains what he believes to be the biblical approach to dating and relationships. Harris was lead pastor of Covenant Life Church, the founding church of Sovereign Grace Ministries, in Gaithersburg, Maryland from 2004 until 2015, when he stepped down to become a student at Regent College, Vancouver...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth30 December 1974
CountryUnited States of America
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.
One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.
I've come to see that you can limit God is different ways. You can limit Him by thinking he can never work in spectacular ways. But you can also limit Him by thinking that only the spectacular is meaningful." - from "Dug Down Deep
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.
The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.
The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.
Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.