Book Review: Couples Who Pray by SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt
Couples Who Pray: The Most Intimate Act Between a Man and a Woman
That’s not a typo in the title, the “Q” in SQuire is capitalized. Don’t know why. What I do know is I have just finished reading Couples Who Pray: The Most Intimate Act Between a Man and a Woman by husband and wife team SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt.
I chose this book after being drawn in by the title. Having received it I was eager to get started, and found this book to be a quick and easy read, I read it in it’s entirety in one setting. The premise is this: couples who not only pray, but pray together are statistically proven to far and away more successful marriages than those who do not. By what standard do we deem a marriage successful you might ask? Not getting divorced is high on the list. This book demonstrates clearly that couples who pray together, stay together.
One of the things I appreciate most about this book is it’s inclusion of hard, measurable, provable data. The scoffers and nay-sayers cannot disagree with the information found in this book obtained by the likes of polling giant Gallup. The author’s prove their point, and do it well.
The reader will find several “big names” included in the author’s research, including Denzel Washington and Kathie Lee Gifford with their respective spouses. These couples and many others have taken the author’s 40 day prayer challenge, and share it’s most intimate results. The reader is then challenged to do the same using the books included resources.
If I must find a point of disagreement with the content of this book, it might be with the author’s teaching on tithing. The book does a fine job of outlining the benefits of biblical tithing and giving case-study like examples of it’s blessings from real couples, but SQuire and Louise go on to imply, somewhat strongly, that tithing needn’t be defined as giving 10% of monetary income, but could be giving of time or other resources as well. I must disagree. I believe scripture teaches that a biblical tithe is 10% of income, and that giving of other resources should be considered above and beyond our tithe.
All in all this is an excellent book, and I would recommend it without reservation to any couple. In fact I will likely add this to the materials to be included in pre-marital counseling.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program.
delighted to share. 