![]() She offers a lot of very practical sound advice as to how to go about dating in the right way. I kept going back to it, both when someone of the opposite sex was interesting me, or when down about there being no one in the picture. I first read this book in my early teens, before I'd ever done any real dating. These revealing personal glimpses, combined with relevant biblical teaching, will remind you that only by putting your human passion and desire through His fire can God purify your love. Through letters, diary entries, and memories, she shares the temptations, difficulties, victories, and sacrifices of two young people whose commitment to Christ took priority over their love for each other. She teaches this often-painful yet rewarding discipline by candidly tracing her love story with Jim Elliot as evidence that she has been there. In Passion and Purity, Elisabeth Elliot emphasizes the need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait upon Him. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker in constant demand ![]() She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca (now known as Huaorani also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern Ecuador. Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard Decem– June 15, 2015) was a Christian author and speaker. ![]()
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