The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth." Whether in a dating relationship, married, or pursuing a call to single life, readers will find Elliot's message challenging them to a true faith in a Christ who lovingly calls us to surrender all. "Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept His lordship.
The perfect antidote for those who flounder in the thinking that "the Bible doesn't say anything about dating," Elliot's short chapters are filled with nuggets of wisdom that spell out exactly the opposite.
Based on stories, journal entries, and letters chronicling her own five-year courtship with Jim Elliot, she gives frank advice, scriptural directives, and compassionate examples of what it means to follow Christ in the midst of heartache and impatience. So full disclosure: I only read this because Charles Marsh (the man responsible for the good recent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer) shared an Interfaith Now article on Twitter titled 'The Purity Hoax', which questioned whether or not Jim & Elisabeth Elliots love story really played out the way Elisabeth presented it in Passion and Purity. 24 Elliot starts this chapter with a bit of biography: as a young woman, she decides to keep a spiritual journal and in it she notes verses and hymns that made an impression on her.
Much Christian teaching has laid the emphasis on. Passion and Purity, pg 24: The Shulamite Woman Advises on Love 1 Chapter 2: The Life I Owe, pg. Elisabeth Elliot's story centers around one pivotal question: "Does God want everything?" Her emphatic answer-"Yes"-is what makes Passion and Purity the foremost Christian book on dating ever written. S 140 Passion and Purity: Feeling, Living and Loving in the Fullness of the Image of Christ (2017).
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