Rebecca St. James - Wait for Me: Rediscovering the Joy of Purity in Romance

Rebecca St. James writes as beautifully as she sings, and about one of the most beautiful gifts weve been given... a chaste sexuality. Her witness and wisdom, winsomely given, is persuasive encouragement to live Gods gift in Gods way.

EUGENE H. PETERSON
Translator of The Message Bible and Professor Emeritus of Spiritual
Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.

The first time I heard the song Wait for Me my response was Wow! I feel the same way about the book. Its romantic, real, and challenging. Packed with Scripture, it shows just how good following Gods plan can be. This is a message that Rebecca lives. Her example and personal faithfulness make it powerful.

JOSHUA HARRIS
Best-selling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl

Rebecca St. Jamess Wait for Me is a survival guide for all who are walking the perilous premarital minefields. She gives us a practical, frank, and loving handbook on how to avoid a lifetime of heartbreak and regret, yet she offers hope and healing for the casualties of love and lust. Never have we needed this kind of candid encouragement more.

JON RIVERS
20: The Countdown Magazine

With warmth, compassion, and a depth of understanding and knowledge of Gods Word, Rebecca St. James touches the core of the purity message in a way that young people will certainly relate to and appreciate. This young woman has lived what she writes, making a choice to honor God with her life in the midst of peer pressures and social messages that continually call to all of usespecially the youngto compromise. Wait for Me is a relevant and timely book, with a message that will touch a lot of lives with the good news thatwith Gods helpright choices are now and always ours for the making.

JOSH MCDOWELL
Author/Speaker

Rebeccas Wait for Me song was hugely popular with our readers, and not just because it was a catchy tune. Its because Rebecca sensitively tackles a topicsexual purityvital to all Christian teens. This book takes that songs message and expounds on itbiblically, graciouslyin friend-to-friend fashion. Wait for Me is a message of encouragement to those who are committed to abstinence until their wedding day. And its a message of hope and forgiveness to those who have made mistakes. Good words indeed.

MARK MORING
Campus Life magazine

2002 by Rebecca St. James

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Scripture quotations noted NIV are from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations noted THE MESSAGE are from The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary English. 1993 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Scripture quotations noted NLT are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

St. James, Rebecca.
Wait for me : rediscovering the joy of purity in romance / Rebecca St. James with Dale Reeves.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7852-7127-7 (hc)
ISBN 978-0-7852-8825-1 (tp)
ISBN 978-1-4003-1287-0 (rpk)
1. Chastity. 2. YouthReligious life. 3. MarriageReligious aspectsChristianity. 4. Sexual abstinenceReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Reeves, Dale. II. Title.
BV4647.C5 S7 2002
241.66dc21

2002006422

08 09 10 11 RRD 6 5 4 3 2 1

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To those whose regretful tears
inspired these pages.

Above all, to God;
may He use these words to bring hope
that will dry those tears,
and conviction to allto keep
the tears from falling in the first place.