Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This
A Christian Doctor's Thoughts on Sex, Shame, and Other Troublesome Issues
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This
A Christian Doctor's Thoughts on Sex, Shame, and Other Troublesome Issues
About this book
In Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This, Dr. Lina AbuJamra gives a refreshing and honest look at what it's like to struggle with sexual temptation and shame and how the Church can better support Christians and communities in these challenging and often avoided topics. Are you wondering why you picked up this book? Don't worry. Your secret is safe with me. Maybe you're like me—a good person living a decent life, making a living and working hard. You go to church on Sundays and pray before your meals. But you have a secret, a hidden part of your life that you'd be ashamed for anyone to find out about. I get it. I really do. I have secrets too. The thing with secrets is that they eventually come out. Instead of hiding, let's have a difficult conversation, a real talk about secrets and shame and sex and a lot of things in between. Difficult conversations don't have to be difficult, but they do have to be honest. In Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This, Lina shares her own struggle with sexual temptation with openness and vulnerability. She points out where the church and purity culture have failed our communities. Lina gets real about the excuses we make and the lies we tell ourselves even when our behaviors point to a larger problem. This is a no-holds-barred discussion on why Christians still struggle with sexual sin and what the church needs to be doing to support Christians and the community at large. Most importantly, you'll see that despite our constant failures as humans, Jesus doesn't ask us to be perfect. He just asks us to be His. If you're going to have a difficult conversation, you might as well have it with a doctor.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction: Don’t Skip This
- 1. Denial: I don’t really have a problem with sex.
- 2. Control: I can stop anytime.
- 3. Excuses: It’s not my fault.
- 4. Secrets: No one will ever find out.
- 5. Billy Graham Rule: I’m too cool for the Billy Graham rule.
- 6. Navel Gazing: I’m so bored with my life.
- 7. Gray Areas: The Bible doesn’t clearly say it’s wrong.
- 8. Relativism: What I’m doing is nothing compared to them.
- 9. Masturbating: I’m not hurting anyone with my sin.
- 10. Shame: I don’t feel safe talking about it.
- 11. Breathe: I deserve this because I work so hard.
- 12. The Big Love: I’m still looking for the one.
- 13. Grace: I’ve gotten away with it so far.
- 14. Change: I can’t change who I am.
- 15. Futile Formulas: I’m sick and tired of formulas that don’t work.
- 16. Ecstasy: But it feels so good.
- 17. Safe People: I don’t have anyone to talk to about it.
- 18. Promises, Promises: I feel like a hypocrite making promises I can’t keep.
- 19. Hope: It’s too late for me to change.
- Epilogue
- Undeserved
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Tell Me Your Story
- Notes
- Copyright