This unique approach to dating, courtship, and marriage based on Christian values offers young people a practical plan for finding the right life partner. Christian authors Michael and Judy Phillips are veterans of a forty-six-year marriage (and counting!). In this book, they share practical advice for young people who want a partnership that will last a lifetime. Drawing on their pioneering work in home schooling as well as their work with young people, Michael and Judy present bold, surprising, sometimes even controversial alternatives to dating as the means for choosing spouses. Best Friends for Life develops revolutionary ideas about parental involvement, about dating as it is usually understood, and about the pressures young people face to make lifetime decisions prematurely. Families who want to choose God's best will find here a strong prescription for wise, sensible, and lasting Christian marriages.

本書の白眉は、刹那的な情熱を、生涯続く「友情」という堅牢な礎へと昇華させる筆致にあります。四十六年を共にした著者夫妻の言葉には、流行の恋愛論とは一線を画す圧倒的な重みが宿っています。読者は、安易な感情に流されず、魂の伴侶を慎重に見極めるための「知恵の聖域」に触れることになるでしょう。 現代のデート文化へ一石を投じる家族主体のパートナーシップ論は、今こそ再考されるべき革命的な提言です。単なる指南書を超え、最良の人生を選択するための哲学書としても、本書は類まれな輝きを放っています。真実の絆を渇望するすべての魂に、本書は揺るぎない指針を灯してくれるはずです。