Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth That Sets Them Free Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B001P1XEY2 | Format: EPUB
Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth That Sets Them Free Description
Lies Young Women Believe will give girls aged 13-19 the tools they need to identify where their lives and beliefs are off course - the result of buying into Satan's lies about God, guys, media, and more.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss teams up youth author Dannah Gresh to speak to teenage girls about the top lies they believe. They then equip young women in the skills and the truths of Scripture that overcome those lies.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 5 hours and 13 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Oasis Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: January 2, 2009
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001P1XEY2
Before I mention all the problems with this book, let me first say that the authors do say some things young girls need to hear. Appearance, behavior, relationships, etc. are all addressed and the authors try to say some pointed things that young girls need to be hearing from their parents or adults involved in their lives. I think that is why this book is popular--no one really wants to say the hard things to the young girls in their lives.
The problem I have with the book is the whole premise. That we need to introduce the lie or "deception" first, with some stories that I believe are included for shock value, in order to then teach the truth is damaging. Young girls are easily led astray. When something is in print, they don't usually take the time to analyze it, they just believe it. For instance, the first story in the book is about a girl who gets involved with drugs when her father offered them to her and then proceeds to have an incestuous relationship with her father.
Hmmm....whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, pure, lovely...think on these things. Do our young girls really need to hear this story?
Lets analyze the story itself. It begins with "her life was almost a fairytale until that day". Are young girls really going to analyze that statement? That a girl with such a father could not possibly have had a fairytale life up until that point does not occur to most teens. Do the authors point out that lie? No. The authors also state that "her own church-going father offered her crystal meth". Now another idea has been planted. A young girl from a Christian home may begin to wonder if her own church going father will some day change in this drastic way depicted here. Scary thought.
As the authors of this book, Nancy DeMoss and Dannah Gresh attempt to expose 25 lies that Satan uses to deceive teenage girls, and to replace those lies with God's truth. The heart of the book consists of nine chapters which claim to represent the devil's lies to young women about God, Satan, girls, guys, relationships, faith, sin, the media, and the future. The authors identified these lies from a survey questioning 1,000 adolescent girls located in ten different cities; the survey itself was initially developed from a discussion with a focus group of 100 girls. The final three chapters of the book discuss how God's truth can be used to overcome these lies. I like the premise of what the authors were intending to accomplish with this book, but I have two major concerns.
The first problem is that of the 25 un-Godly beliefs, I can wholeheartedly stand behind the spiritual antidote to only 14 of them, whereas the remaining 11 present problems. For example, lie #10 is "It's OK to go out with a non-Christian". An explanation follows with a quote from 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, which I am fine with, but this is followed up with the statement, "Not only does God want you to marry a Christian; He wants you to marry a man who will lead you spiritually." I might agree that is ideal, but is that what God requires in His Word? In this book, there seem to be numerous examples of "truth" that extends beyond what the Scripture teaches. In lie #11, girls are told to avoid glancing at provocative marketing posters at the mall; in #12, they are instructed to "compile a list of books and movies that don't fuel (thoughts of) romance", and in #13, they are admonished "not to talk about menstruation with guys". Conversely, there are also examples where "truth" seems be lacking or absent.
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