I Gave Dating a Chance: A Biblical Perspective to Balance the Extremes

balanced approach is usually the best. This book talks about moving away from extremism just for the sake of extremism and focusing on what makes the most common sense: taking a purposeful plotted path towards marriage and taking less concern over whether it is courtship, dating, group dating, or some other form of leading to marriage. In the end, a solid marriage is the goal, and Christ in your relationships with other persons is what ultimately matters, not whether some author writes a book and expects us all to hop in horse and buggy chariots with our parents watching us talk about the weather and sports. it is not impossible to step beyond the all-too-common church stereotype of 'lusty man has no control' and into a new world where you make conscious decisions based on your faith and your own knowledge of your limitations. Or, if you do not know your own limitations, you ask others to give a frank mirror perspective; thus, you will be able to set boundaries and intentionally pursue what is right.

My 15 year old daughter loved this book. She said that she appreciated the way the author presented a point then backed it up with a Biblical reference. There was no fluff used as filler.I bought one for my daughter who is not a big reader and a friend of hers who is a big reader. One of her male friends saw her reading it and borrowed it after her. It has sense been making its rounds, which is why I'm buying additional books.

1997 "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" - Why Christians shouldn't be players1998-2000 not too many books available for Christians IN a relationship to assist their dating phase. I was a teen when that book was hyped. I continued to ask, what if I did fall in love, what then?2000 "Boy Meets Girl" - How to date2000 "I Gave Dating a Chance" - How to date-----------------------------------------------------------------This book is a great textbook on HOW-TO date. when you read textbook, you read theory, real life examples, and then how to solve various problems that come along.what makes it difficult for many to grasp is that they do not understand Scriptures well enough to see how it relates to Biblical view points. **You need to know your Bible before you can relate.** I've read the Bible 4x when I read this book years ago, and having read the Bible a few more times after, I find no contradiction. In fact, I find it as a very good text book for dating. It covers how God INTENDS dating to be and in the end, answers tough questions with great examples.Some criticize that he's past the teen years, but that makes one even more qualified, in that they have seen the good fruit of following the LORD in Dating.As a project manager, the SUCCESS of a project is dictated by the success of the beginning. Success of a relationship is dictated by the success of the beginning: dating phase. A successful person would weigh ALL the options, understand the risks of each option, how to mitigate risks, what risks are tolerable, how to monitor progress, etc.This is a MUST READ before getting into the dating phase of life.Just like the Bible, it won't cover every possible scenario in life. That's were specialized books come in, that deal with more specific topics. However, the book is a foundation, a baseline from which to aim towards.-----------------------------------------------------------------I first got my hands on this book in my early 20's after a few unsuccessful relationship and couldn't put the book down. I read it over and molded my view on How to Correctly Date, with respect. This book covers all issues from why date (not everyone is called to be in a relationship), how to prepare before picking someone up, how to impress, how to carry convo, and other issues such as internet, flirting, breakups, physicality, tough questions and more. Lots of real life examples. This book helped me recover and avoid potential pitfalls and this has been my guide until I got married.As a married man, the book is foundational in revealing the differences between male and female, which are actually the root causes of marital problems.I now teach the content to my youth group and I even CHALLENGED a younger youth to read any two chapters, and he too couldn't put the book down and read more. Good font size and soft paper for easy reading. My wife and I teach it at young adults Bible Studies and they find it enlightening in that they never saw dating "that way".This book also inspired me to create the first video that appears on youtube when you search "Christian Dating".

I bought this as a discussion starter and foundation for my 15 year old son. He reluctantly agreed to read it, but when he was done he said it was really good and an easy read, and he was really glad he read it. It really helped firm up his own values on the issue of dating.

I Gave Dating a Chance by Jeramy Clark-Are you dating? Do you wish you were dating? Do you know why you date? Some profound yet quite true answers to these questions.This young adult man has done his research and come up with solutions to the age old dilemma of DATING.Do you want to find some answers to your own questions about dating? Are you the parent of a young teen and they want to date???? How to solidify your own ideas on dating and be able to communicate them clearly to another parent or student.

It was worth the read.

So good!!!!

I picked up this book in preparation for dating (I like to be well informed), and found it to be a decent treatment of dating based on biblical principles. The author clearly has a great amount of experience in youth ministry and he keeps the tone straightforward and conversational. The book has helpful pointers on growing in Christian character before/during dating, evaluating dates, purity, accountability, guarding emotions, men & women's roles, etc. I take stars off because I don't agree with his view on casual dating; even the phrase I find distasteful. I think that if a guy and girl want to be friends, then be friends, but if they are dating they should take that more seriously with the end view of marriage. I think casual dating, or dating in general, can be very destructive and harmful if one is not mature enough for that kind of relationship (and I think the vast majority of young adults are not mature enough to date seriously). It opens the door for emotional trauma and of course violations of purity. I would say grow in Christ, become a mature Christian, and be realistic about other people and the time in your life, and then date purposefully. Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox: decent read with biblical principles for dating, but I disagree with the casual dating view.