love sex and lasting relationships chip ingram

'Restrictions that God places around sex aren't there because something is wrong with sex. He points out numerous secular, statistic, and scriptural reasons for sexual purity, the most convicting for me being that God doesn't give me boundaries to be a 'cosmic killjoy' rather, He designed me and knows what will make me the happiest long term, and so He wants only the very, very best for me. Hollywood's formula for love is 'find the right person', but walking in love means to BECOME the right person by living sacrificially for others and looking in the mirror when problems start to occur in the relationship. Instead of focusing on the usual 'Love is patient, love is kind' passage from 1 Corinthians (though he does touch upon it at one point), Ingram starts with 'walk in love', and ends with 'walk in the light' in Ephesians 5. It would be great for teenagers before and as they start dating, but I got just as much out of it being happily married.

I liked that Ingram is quick to admit that everyone has gotten love and sex wrong at some point or another (He writes, 'You're not vulnerable because you're a bad person you're vulnerable because you're vulnerable.'), so it's not a book just for teenagers about dating. Ingram wages war on the 'Hollywood formula' for finding love, and instead suggests we look at God's formula and design. This book was recommended to me by a friend at church as being one of her 'library' books, and now I can see why.

Love sex and lasting relationships chip ingram