Young and in Love: Challenging the Unnecessary Delay of Marriage

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Young and in Love: Challenging the Unnecessary Delay of Marriage

by Ted Cunningham

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What if We’ve Got This Purity Thing All Wrong?

In Young and In Love, pastor, author, and speaker Ted Cunningham boldly argues that young love should be celebrated, even promoted. Early marriages can be God’s will and often provide the key to sexual purity. With this in mind, Cunningham shares the secrets to a successful early marriage with those in their late te...more

Paperback, 224 pages

Published June 1st 2011 by David C. Cook

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Aug 10, 2011

Melanie rated it

Shelves: marriage, christian-character, review-books

Maybe “I Do” is Better Than “Just Don’t”. Amen! When I saw that Young and In Love was coming out I thought to myself “Finally!” Soon to celebrate my 18th wedding anniversary to my childhood sweetie, I was wishing that we would have had this book back then. The book is geared toward couples who are young and in love.. not for the singles, not for someone older who is waiting, not for those who believe in waiting for their career and all their plans to get their lives in order before getting marri...more

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Jun 29, 2011

Laura rated it

Title: YOUNG AND IN LOVE
Author: Ted Cummingham
Publisher: David C. Cook
July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7814-0447-1
Genre: Inspirational/dating and relationships

Maybe “I do” is better than “Just don’t.”

Pastor Ted Cunningham was taught as many of us where. Sex is dirty. Don’t do it. Save it for the one you love. But it didn’t work—most singles had sex outside of marriage. And now, cohabitating and unmarried sex is even more common, even expected among singl...moreTitle: YOUNG AND IN LOVE
Author: Ted Cummingham
Publisher: David C. Cook
July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7814-0447-1
Genre: Inspirational/dating and relationships

Maybe “I do” is better than “Just don’t.”

Pastor Ted Cunningham was taught as many of us where. Sex is dirty. Don’t do it. Save it for the one you love. But it didn’t work—most singles had sex outside of marriage. And now, cohabitating and unmarried sex is even more common, even expected among singles.

In a rebuttal against “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” (embracing courtship) Cunningham says, “Kiss it hello. Date!” If a girl is dating another man, ask her out anyway. Dating isn’t the same as marriage. And if your parents/friends/pastor say “You just think you’re in love or you’re too young to get married” then marry anyway. Marriage is the answer to staying sexually pure.

A godly relationship is hard when you fall in love at a young age. Few offer support. Many doubt. And they claim “You’re not ready.” Cunningham says “Wait no more. Get Married!”

YOUNG AND IN LOVE packs a punch with a lot of humor and wit. This was a great read, and it validates young love, giving the couple in the relationship the tools to make a wise commitment and challenging them not to delay what God is knitting together.

I’m not sure how I feel about this book. If I had read this book as a nineteen year old in love with the one I thought was Mr. Right, I would have been all for it. Yahoo! Someone’s on my side! I did marry at twenty-two, but a different man than I dated at nineteen. And as a mature adult with twenty-five years of marriage under my belt, I wonder—would I still be married if I’d married when I was nineteen? His parents broke us up—he was too young. I seriously doubt I would have been able to handle his family—or that man—long enough for a lasting marriage.

Now, as a parent myself, I have an eighteen year old and a twenty year old. Neither one of them is talking marriage—yet. Both have plans they are striving toward, college degrees to earn, etc. But well—can I see my eighteen year old getting married to his current girlfriend? Seriously, I don’t even want to consider it. When it is eventually discussed, I hope I don’t try to break them up, I hope that I don’t say “you’re too young.” But… Well, that is all I have to say about that. YOUNG AND IN LOVE is a great book validating marriage--and not an eternal childhood. And it's supported by scripture. Seriously, a great book. But I think you need to exercise caution. Is he/she really someone you want to spend the rest of your life with? Does he/she get along well with your family? Am I really in love, or am I just in lust? Can you support a wife, or will you be moving in with your parents? $14.99. 222 pages.
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Aug 01, 2011

Kate rated it

Shelves: christian, christian-living, my-library, nonfiction, review-books, young-adult

A few weeks before I received an email pitch for Young and in Love from B&B Media, I learned that an old acquaintance of mine from grade school had ended up getting married to her high school sweetheart when she was barely eighteen. I mentioned it to a few family members and friends, curious as to what they would think. Young and old, they all had pretty much the same response: raised eyebrows, open mouths, and an implied, “What was she thinking?!” I, on the other hand, thought, “What’s the big ...more

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Aug 22, 2011

Laurie Carlson rated it

Shelves: marriage, marrying-young, young-marriage, not-delaying-marriage, love, couple-in-love, god, responsible, mature

“Young and In Love” by Ted Cunningham

Finally! A book that is about something that has always weighed heavily on my heart! Marrying young, as God has intended!
This is a book about young people who have met, fallen in love, and want to get married. They do not want to delay their marriage just because they are young. They want to get married since they have both found that special person they know is right for them as a couple to marry, and are ready to spend the rest of their l...more“Young and In Love” by Ted Cunningham

Finally! A book that is about something that has always weighed heavily on my heart! Marrying young, as God has intended!
This is a book about young people who have met, fallen in love, and want to get married. They do not want to delay their marriage just because they are young. They want to get married since they have both found that special person they know is right for them as a couple to marry, and are ready to spend the rest of their lives together, growing together as you do in marriage. They have been blessed by God in finding each other, and want to follow His rules about being together.
The Author, Ted Cunningham, happens to be a Pastor in a church he founded called Woodland Hills Family Church located in Branson Missouri. He wrote this book based upon his own life, beliefs, and what he practices in his church. He has a wonderful set of guidelines young people should consider and follow ‘before’ they get married, which I think is wonderful! (‘Anyone’ at ‘any’ age should consider and follow these guidelines, in my opinion, as this book applies to all people who decide to marry at any age, really.) This book’s message encourages marriage at a young age and gives terrific advice that should be followed by these young people who are considering and/or are going to marry.
This author/Pastor is for marrying at a young age if you have found the person you love and are mature and responsible. He feels you should not wait, but to follow God’s plan he has for us, because finding the one we love is a gift from God. We should take this gift from God and not risk losing it..
Before I even heard about this book, I have always had of the belief that Society, today, is just ‘not’ conducive to young people getting married, and this is the way the author feels. I have always felt God has marriage in mind for us at an early age because he has given us all these natural feelings we have at an early age, otherwise, they would not be there. These feelings are there and with us for a reason, which when you read this book, you will understand this even more so. I don’t want to give everything away in this review as this should be read by many people in hopes that supporting our young people getting married will become accepted more so than what it is currently. This author/Pastor has a great message to share about the benefits of marrying young. He does point out there are ‘foxes’ to watch out for, and they are not foxes in the terms of beautiful people. This you’ll have to read about as well. This advice he gives is incredible.
Teens and young adults are, in today’s Society, are made to wait and go through all this resistance from people, from the church, from society, from school (generally college) for their choice to marry and not give in to their feelings, as the Bible teaches us. It seems practically a set-up for failure to not marry young. You must follow Gods’ ways, and waiting to marry could potentially cause you to lose the gift God has given you; the one you love. Accept it. Don’t allow parents, the church, school, or other people and more hold you back. If you feel you are ready, responsible and mature enough for marriage, then get married. He continues on with saying waiting to get married for what? For us to become to set in our ways, to become almost selfishly to absorbed in our own ways and not honestly share our love with another person? He also says that today, with all this waiting until we have reached this milestone or that milestone in life, has turned us into a sinful world by putting marriage off, and almost last. We are ending up living together and/or having sex before marriage, all going against the Word of God, and I happen to agree.
The great thing this author/Pastor has is a guideline of rules/considerations that ‘should’ be followed for a healthy and successful marriage, (and actually, this can be applied to anyone at any age for marriage and even ‘during’ our current marriage.)
I have felt God has made us so we can marry young, have children at a fairly young age, and to ‘grow together through marriage’, and this is exactly what this book’s message is about.
This book covers all this and a lot more. It discusses a variety of the many different views on young marriage, the church’s views on young marriage, and this Pastor’s own views on young marriage, which are positive and many. He discusses age, privilege, and responsibility. Not just anyone can jump into marriage, as you have to be mature enough to take this huge responsibility. Even marrying at an older age does ‘not’ guarantee that it will work if you don’t have what this Pastor discusses you ‘need’ to have in order to make your marriage a success.
I think this is an excellent book for ALL young people and their parents to read together. Married people can benefit from this book as well. I believe this author wrote the perfect book to help end a lot of problems young people face by ‘not’ marrying young. There is so much more great information in this book, it really should be a must read for all parents and young people, even by society so they can start to understand the benefits of young marriage.
I am ‘very’ glad I got the opportunity to review this book with feeling the way I do about people getting married at a younger age and ‘staying’ married. When I saw this book was available for review, I HAD to jump at it to review it, as I felt it most likely supported my opinions of marrying young, and it does.
Sure enough, this book is not a disappointment at all, but an encouragement to many young people out there who ‘do’ want to marry and happen to be young.
*I received this book for “FREE” from The B & B Media Group, Inc., through David Cook Publishers, through their Book Reviewer’s Program in exchange to read this book and write a review about it. It is NOT required for my review I write to be either positive or negative, but, “of my own opinion.” I was NOT provided with “ANY” monies to accept this book, “NOR” to read it, NOR were “ANY” monies given to me to write the review for this book. All that was ‘expected’ of me was to enjoy the pure pleasure of reading it. Again, the opinions expressed for and about this book are ‘of my own opinion’. I am disclosing this information in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255, http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisi... Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
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Aug 16, 2011

Heather rated it

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What an excellent book. My husband and I married young, too, and I wish we had something like this to encourage us and help us get started on the right foot. We were high school sweethearts who waited until college was done. Had I read this, I don't think we would have waited so long.

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