 When God Writes Your Love Story is a popular Christian book that provides alternatives to dating . For this reason , Leah Andrews of the Lewiston Morning Tribune compared the book to Joshua Harris 's I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Boy Meets Girl . When God Writes Your Love Story also contains Evangelical sexual abstinence teachings . Christine Gardner , a communications professor at Wheaton College , investigates such teachings in Making Chastity Sexy : The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns , and discusses the Ludys ' book as part of this investigation . Gardner writes that she interviewed a twenty @-@ two @-@ year @-@ old woman who had read When God Writes Your Love Story and " desperately wanted God to write her love story , but she thought that she would help him out by filling in the blanks . " Gardner argues that the result " was a fractured fairy tale , one without a happy ending . " 
