After Dating & Courtship, Joshua Harris Writes About Purity

(Gaithersburg, Maryland-AP) -- Christian author and pastor
Joshua Harris says lust is a lie that robs people of their
ability to enjoy the pleasure that God meant for partners in
marriage.
The author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" and "Boy Meets
Girl" has written a new book titled "Not Even a Hint: Guarding
Your Heart Against Lust."
He cites C.S. Lewis's illustration of lust as a lying
lizard that teases and gnaws at a ghostly man -- until that man
lets God kill the lust. Only then is the lizard transformed into
a stallion of fulfilled desire in a man who's become real.
The 29-year-old Harris says purity is strength -- and leads
to the joy of giving love in a committed relationship instead of
the emptiness of taking momentary pleasures.
Joshua Harris is executive pastor of the
three-thousand-member Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg,
Maryland.