A best seller about 20 years ago, when Josh Harris was 21 years old.
Now he's about 40 - and just apostatized.
Posted on 08/03/2019 1:58:11 PM PDT by fishtank
Josh,
My first memory of you was in Olympia, Washington standing in my driveway as a grinning kid when you were about nine years old. I saw you many times as your dad and I spoke at many conferences over the years.
How can I forget that meeting in the lobby of a hotel in Rochester, New York when you told me you had signed a book deal for “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”? I told you it was a bad title and wouldn’t sell. Of course, it outsold everything I have ever written by a wide margin.
The last time I saw you was at your dear mother’s funeral. (I can’t recall if you were at your brothers’ graduation from Patrick Henry College.)
We knew each other very well for many years. And I loved you like a younger brother. And still do.
I don’t think I can reach you in private and what you have said and done is very public, so I am reaching out to you in this way....
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
I've been told by those in the know - that's about $2M.
A best seller about 20 years ago, when Josh Harris was 21 years old.
Now he's about 40 - and just apostatized.
I have read speculation that he may reveal he is gay.
Never heard of either.
Prediction: He’ll be in a same-sex relationship by Christmas if he isn’t already.
He may have to pawn his old purity rings to pay the divorce lawyer.
Here’s a time capsule for perspective......
Joshua Harris’s book was HUUUUUUUUGGGGGEEEEE when it came out.
Michael Farris runs the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.
I haven’t had TV for about 30 years now.....
I see a little when I’m traveling, but most of my video is through internet, DVDs and Amazon Prime.
Who the heck is Joshua Harris and why should anyone care what he does?
Thanks.
...And this brings me back to Harris. It is sad that his marriage is at an end. It is sad that he has abandoned the faith. He alone must take final responsibility for his actions. But he was also the product of, and a major player in, a wider movement that is proving increasingly problematic. As a product, he was exploited by those who saw in him a marketing opportunity and consequently gave him far too much exposure and responsibility far too soon. He was used. I wonder if any of the leading YRR lights have spent a moment reflecting about whether they and the culture they created bear any responsibility for this mess. Or is Harris’s apostasy merely another of those Satanic attacks that confirm that they are on the right track and must press on?
As a player, Harris might be qualified to do the evangelical church one last favor: He can expose the behind-the-scenes shenanigans—the money made by at least some of the leading lights, and the power wielded by an unaccountable few—of Big Evangelicalism. That would seem a more important contribution than emotive talk of personal journeys, gobbledygook about repentance detached from any notion of God, and the continuation of life as performance art.
Ping to a couple other saints.
Actually, Mike Farris founded Home School Legal Defense and Patrick Henry College.
He’s now the CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group.
He’s a brilliant Constitutional scholar
Thanks for the link.
Another false prophet. Is it he size of the ministry that determines how corrupt it becomes? (I have no answer)
bkmk
I doubt that I would be as kind as Mike Farris is in the letter. Nor do I think that he was "used" as Carl Trueman feels. After all, he not only deserted the faith but he deserted his wife and family. The very sad thing about all of this is that it is impossible to bring back to repentence those who once were enlightened and then have fallen away.
John 6:67-69 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.”
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