Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This

A Christian Doctor's Thoughts on Sex, Shame, and Other Troublesome Issues

De: Lina AbuJamra MD

Narrado por: Lina AbuJamra MD

In Don't Tell Anyone You're Reading This, Dr. Lina AbuJamra gives a refreshing and honest look at what it’s like to struggle with sexual temptation and shame and how the Church can better support Christians and communities in these challenging and often avoided topics.

Are you wondering why you picked up this book? Don’t worry. Your secret is safe with me. Maybe you’re like me—a good person living a decent life, making a living and working hard. You go to church on Sundays and pray before your meals. But you have a secret, a hidden part of your life that you’d be ashamed for anyone to find out about.

I get it. I really do. I have secrets too. The thing with secrets is that they eventually come out.

Instead of hiding, let’s have a difficult conversation, a real talk about secrets and shame and sex and a lot of things in between. Difficult conversations don’t have to be difficult, but they do have to be honest.

In Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Reading This, Lina shares her own struggle with sexual temptation with openness and vulnerability. She points out where the church and purity culture have failed our communities. Lina gets real about the excuses we make and the lies we tell ourselves even when our behaviors point to a larger problem.

This is a no-holds-barred discussion on why Christians still struggle with sexual sin and what the church needs to be doing to support Christians and the community at large. Most importantly, you’ll see that despite our constant failures as humans, Jesus doesn’t ask us to be perfect. He just asks us to be His.

If you’re going to have a difficult conversation, you might as well have it with a doctor.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Lina AbuJamra, MD (P)2023 Oasis Audio

Lina is such a badass

I tell her that all the time but I mean it! She’s amazing, honest, funny and insightful. I love her words and encouragement as well as her relatability. We needed this book in the world!!

Listened twice!

Listened once on my own. Then listened with my fiancé. He wanted to hear what Lina had to say. Thank you, for sharing your heart, transparency, truth, and honesty.

He felt she was ranting about the church. We talked about it afterwards. He said this brought up more questions than solutions. I love that we will have more to discuss and share about what Lina wrote about.

We need to wrestle with questions left in this book.
Thought provoking book.
Thank you, Lina.

Two Majors Errors

Lina was very brave discussing “the elephant in the living room of the church.”
She perpetuated the error that the church has always taught, that “fornication is sex before marriage”. The Greek word is “pornea”, so this should horrify all married men AND women engaging in that which is first on the list of those not going to heaven (1 Cor 6:9).
Second is “lust”. The Hebrew word also means desire, covet (10th Commandment) and pleasant to the eyes, all thing that men desperately need to practice with their wives (as lovers).
Porn is bad. and it took Gary Wilson, an atheist, to proclaim the harm it does in our brains. Jack Piggot, a non-Christian teenager, declared “porn is bad” (out of the mouth of babes).
The silence from the church is DEAFENING. I believe Lena‘s book may change things and crack this discussion wide open, especially in the Church.

Tell everyone!

This book is very honest and true. Thank you Lina for narrating this book! Thank you for always being so honest and writing about topics that no one else does! Thank you for always bringing it back to Jesus, to God be the glory! And bless you and your ministry!

Honest and vulnerable

The first time I have read something on this subject that is honest and helpful. Thank you Lina.