emotional purity: an affair of the heart
Have you ever given your heart to someone who didn’t love you back?
Do you feel like you’ve experienced heartache over and over again?
If you are emotionally attached to someone, it’s easy to cross the line and become emotionally intimate. Then if the relationship doesn’t work out, you’re left with scars on your heart.
The church teaches us the importance of physical purity; but it teaches little about emotional purity. Christian singles often wear their hearts on their sleeves, which can lead to intense, emotionally intimate, male-female “friendships” with no commitment to pursuing marriage. People may have had several of these “friendships” and still consider themselves pure, but in reality they have given away pieces of their hearts that should be reserved for their future spouses.
Emotional Purity will show you how to define and set boundaries in your relationships to avoid making the same mistakes. Learn how to guard your heart and keep it emotionally pure.
Using fictional and real-life examples along with sound biblical advice, author Heather Arnel Paulsen outlines the pitfalls of undefined relationships and presents guidelines for living an emotionally pure life.
This book will also help a married person who may be tempted to cross the lines into an emotional affair with a "friend". Married Christians will learn how to maintain emotional faithfulness within the marriage vows. Although, the book is written with singles in mind, may married people find great benefit in reading.
How do we avoid craving the praise of man?
It feels so good to know others think highly of you! To have people praise you! To have people adore you!
How do we avoid the fear of man?
Are we consumed with worry that a person will be displeased with us? Are we doing things in order to please man?
We have to view ourselves through the cross. We have to compare ourselves to the Servant of servants. We have to humble ourselves. We must operate under the assumption we have an audience of One.
Who are you trying to please? Whose approval do you crave? Man or God?
-Heather Patenaude
Emotional Purity
by Heather Arnel Paulsen (Patenaude)
So far, this has been a great read!
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