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Get Lost: Your Guide To Finding True Love (2013)

by Dannah Gresh(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307730638 (ISBN13: 9780307730633)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

WaterBrook Press

review 1: What can I say about a book this good? A book whose first pages were so true that I thought "Dannah knows me!" That is what happened with Get Lost. By page three I was underlining and saying "That is the truth. It is."And I kept thinking this over and over... Dannah gets what is in my head and heart!Get Lost begins with this statement:"This is a book about God........and guys.........and how we get them mixed up.Oh, do we ever."Haven't we all.Have you ever sought the love of a guy over the Love of God? And have you still been empty when the relationship was over?We have a Violent Craving for love...and two ways we can try to fill it. We can chase the love of men, or lean on Jesus and eat from His banquet table of Perfect Love. "The only way to overcome the Craving is to be... more completely consumed by the fire of God's Agape Love."The title of this book comes from a delightful and theologically true quote: A Girl Should Be So Lost in God that a Man has to Seek Him to find Her.Get Lost is about that...about satisfying the craving for love by getting lost in God's wide, deep Love. As I read, I though to myself, "Isn't it odd? God invites us to feast upon His love, and instead we go to great lengths to try to get from a man what God promised to give us!"The point is that God is the only source of True Love. Until we have everything in proper perspective, grounded, rooted, established in God's Love, we won't be able to love anyone else. And loving others is what we are called to do.... loving them with a pure love that seeks their godliness and well being, not a selfish love that tries to own them. Once we are steeped in the love of God, we can pour it out on those around us and we can invite them to take part in the Love Feast God has spread before us.{My favorite chapter was chapter sixteen... The story that begins this chapter broke my heart. Read. It.}Getting Lost in God's Love and Finding True Love....two concepts that cannot ever be separated. Like a painter filling a canvas, Dannah illustrates these two concepts in full color in Get Lost.We see the Glory of God's Perfect Love and the Beauty of Holy Love that flows from two hearts full of God's Love.I underlined concepts and paragraphs throughout this book- and I am just on my first read through! This will be a book I revisit multiple times, a book that I will press into the hands of my Christian sisters with a "You need this book. Enough said."I am very grateful to Mrs. Gresh and Waterbrook Publishing for sending me this book.
review 2: I’m no stranger to books by Dannah Gresh. I’m a little older than her target audience, but I’m single, so no matter how old you are, if you are a single female, they are still appropriate. This book, Get Lost: Your Guide to Finding True Love, is a bit different than most young adult or teen purity books. Instead of focusing on not having sex (which it does mention abstinence often) it’s focus is losing yourself in God and finding true love with Him.Sound cheesy? Not really. The author gives some great stories to inspire you. Sure, you might not move to Uganda and adopt 14 children by the age of 22, but maybe the story about the girl who went to college and got involved reaching out to other female students may resonate with you.I very much enjoyed the set up of this book. There were a few chapters of introduction, then the body of the book is called “The Love Feast”. In it, you are to take ten days (although it could be adapted easily to a teen girls’ Bible study and take ten weeks!) and focus on God -- not guys. Then there are a few chapters of conclusion wrapping up what you have been studying. In a day that many Christian books publish a separate study guide, I was glad to see this built right in because most teens and young adults don’t have the extra cash to purchase two books that could be combined into one, so I think this was a great decision on the part of the author and publisher.Even though I’ve been reading books on dating, purity and living for God for longer than most of the target audience has been alive, I have to said Dannah Gresh did a fantastic job on this book. I would highly recommend it to any Christian teen or young adult. In fact, I’m not even sure who will receive my copy because I can think of a couple girls who would enjoy this book. It’s rare I pass on a review copy of a book, but this one is too good to keep to myself.Get Lost: Your Guide to Finding True Love hits bookstores on April 2nd, but you can pre-order it now. FTC disclosure: I received an advance reader’s copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The opinions are my own. less

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