Can't Trust The Author. Stopped Listening.

What would have made Loveology better?

Having solid research as the basis for statistics

Has Loveology turned you off from other books in this genre?

This book has made me not want to read anything else the author wrote.

How could the performance have been better?

Not only did the author mention a false statistic, but he spent time to expand and emphasize things ABOUT this false statistic.

Any additional comments?

The divorce rate is NOT 50%. It is about 25%. The reason why people think it's 50% is because that statistic came from couples who were ALREADY GOING TO MARITAL COUNSELING...not the couples who were married in general. To start off the book with a sloppy, untrue statistic 5 minutes into the book and then stress it so much ("Flip a coin!") made me distrust whatever other statistic or information he might have mentioned later on. This may have been a nice book, but you should be able to trust the author knows what he's talking about.

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Orthodox Rob Bell

I would have loved this ten years ago, but it's not what I was expecting when I picked it out. Loveology is a book on dating, sex and romantic relationships written in the style of Rob Bell, from a conservative Christian perspective. It's well written for that style, though I spent the majority of my time wondering what John Mark's unique voice would sound like. Ultimately, the subject matter wasn't what I was looking for. I was expecting it to tackle broader human issues of sexuality, similar to Rob Bell's Sex God. This is solely focused on romantic relationships though, and does not talk about how love and sexuality permeates every relationship we have as Christians. It was good, and I think most Evangelicals will love it, it's just not what I was expecting.

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A brilliant book

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

To any Christian, no matter what point of a relationship they are in, I would recommend listening or reading this book. It is straightforward and unapologetic when it comes to discussing God's version of what a marriage should look and feel like.

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Loved it.

Loved it. Definitely opened my eyes to love and all that comes with it. Thank you

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Beautiful

One of the best books on relationships that I’ve read. John answered some of the most difficult questions about marriage for me.

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Great, except...

The 10th commandment prohibits A man from lusting after his neighbor's wife or as Jesus would say after any woman. By inference this means desire, lust, or covet (same word in Hebrew) your own wife.
My only objection are the portions where lust is is painted as dirty.
Many Christian marriages lack that intimate fire and romance, when they buy into that error in teaching that lust is never right. It's like saying we should never desire our spouses.
Study that Hebrew word for lust, desire and covet. It's the same one. And in Psalms David says "more to be desired are they than gold...".
In earthly relationships, we direct our passion on whom we chose to marry, and ravinously desire them.

A Must read for anybody!

Not just for those wanting to get married. This book is helpful for all stages of life. Married or not! Very well done.

Incredible

This book caught my attention because I recently was faced with questions about wether men and women can be friends. While this question was absolutely not answered in this book I deeply enjoyed yet again John Mark Comers graceful way of laying out the relationship between men and women in marriage, sex, and dating. He also had plenty to say to single folk. If you’re young, old, married, single, gay, straight, Christian or non I highly recommend the read. He is a pastor so he always references back to the Bible - but there is so much wisdom in this book! So even if you’re non religious go into it with an open heart and you might just find what you’re looking for.

Speechless.

This book is amazing. Full stop. JMC's consistency in writing, expositing the scriptures, and storytelling is unprecedented. This book only further solidified this idea for me. We live in a world where love is more misconstrued than ever, JMC takes a hard stance and plants the flag of Christ firmly in the topic. The clarity and bravery of JMC's ideas is harrowing, and enough to convict any Christian and soften any non-believer. Give it a read, you won't regret it!

A book I wish I had 25 years ago

I feel that every young follower of Jesus should read or listen to this book—but before they mess up their lives, not after. I felt a lot of regret and heartache reading it, not because it’s bad teaching but because it’s good teaching and I have missed out on so much because of sin in contradiction to God’s design for love. My one critique of the book is that it doesn’t include much to help or bring hope to people who are standing in a place of pain and brokenness and don’t have a time machine. I have listened to all of Comer’s books and found them deeply clarifying and instructive, but maybe more applicable for strong, smart, young people who want to “do it right” the first time around and who don’t have a lot of personal brokenness working against them. At my age (not young) the greatest need I witness in myself and my peers is finding hope and newness of life amid deep brokenness and under the weight of burdens that cannot be shed, only shouldered with grace. For people like us, I think this book does help to articulate how to share wisdom with young people who have a clean slate.