Sunday, April 12, 2009

"Courage to Flee" by Jeffrey Klick

Most of us don’t have the time, money, or desire to wade through a stack or relational/purity books looking for a few diamonds in the rough. So where do you even start? Well, I believe that Pastor Jeff Klick’s Courage to Flee: Living a Moral Life in an Immoral World is an excellent starting point for anyone desiring to bring their love lives under Christ’s control. I have personally known Pastor Klick for many years, so I can appreciate how he honestly and openly shares about our ability to avoid and overcome sexual temptation. Whether you are single, dating, courting, engaged, married, or parenting, Courage to Flee should be a book in your library. No matter your situation in life, whether on the road to becoming or simply trying to remain pure, this book will encourage you to escape the traps of immorality and raise your children with positive, Biblical values. The pledge to abstain from sex before marriage is not enough. Single people must follow through with a life of sexual abstinence except for marriage. And all people who marry must remain faithful to their spouse. And if people are widowed or divorced, they must resume abstinence. Scripture gives all humans two options to fulfill their sexuality: abstinence while single or heterosexual marriage. And if we have fallen from sexual purity, God can cleanse and restore us through the death and resurrection of Jesus. I appreciate the fact that Pastor Klick talks candidly about purity and relationships, the way he addresses these topics is never inappropriate, so a preteen could read Courage to Flee without losing a piece of their purity and innocence in the process, a single adult could read it without feeling talked down to, or a married person can read it as a message of hope and victory.

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