While I love the documentary, my one big criticism would be that it isn't fair to the book. So if we can learn to spot their mistakes, then we'll be able to apply that lesson to most any other well-intentioned, but similarly misguided Christian movement. The Purity Movement is almost right – if we weren't worried about grammar Nazis we might say they are so very, nearly, almost right. As Spurgeon once noted, discernment isn't the ability to tell right from wrong, but rather to tell right from almost right. Of course, the Purity Movement got a lot right – hey, they want young people to abstain from sex until marriage, and that's even in the Bible! But it's because the Purity Movement seems so obviously good, that the unveiling of their errors is so instructive. It tackles the Purity Movement overall, and more specifically, what it got wrong. So why watch a documentary about seemingly-not-so-good 20-year-old book? Because the film is about much more than a single book. "I think it was a good book, and a well-intentioned book.well, I don't know that I can say it was a good book. Early on Harris's wife Shannon puts it this way: With a title like I Survived "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" it's no surprise that the documentary presents a rather negative overall assessment of the book. It sold more than 1.2 million copies and was a big part of a purity movement within the Church that helped shape the way a generation of Christians thought about sex, dating, and looking for a spouse.įast forward to today, and in a just-released documentary the now 42-year-old author revisits his book and meets Christians who were impacted by it, for good, but also for ill. It was written for Christian young people by a Christian young person, on a topic that every young person was interested in – how to find that special someone.
Twenty-one years ago the then 21-year-old Joshua Harris struck a nerve with his book I Kissed Dating Goodbye.
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