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Summary: You don't want to miss this
Review: If you read any book in your Life Read this one. This will set your life into a new Spiritual Direction. "Christ is Love"
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Summary: Very inspiring book
Review: The Purpose Driven Life inspired me to make several changes in my personal and business life. For one, I am now more active in my church and in regard to family, I am now spending more time with family where previously I was a workaholic going for the money, spending way too much time at work and giving whatever was left (which wasn't much) to my family.The Purpose Driven Life is an OUTSTANDING book that will impact your life. This is truly a must read.
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Summary: Outstanding book by Warren
Review: I was talking to my minister over the weekend and asked him what he thought about this book and he highly recommended it. In fact, he was so excited about it that he brought it up in church and highly recommended it to the entire clergy. The Purpose Driven Life will help you design a life of purpose that will go beyond the bashers of this book who have no life other than in front of their pc's all day and all night bashing good books like this one. This p erson (it really is only one person who reposts over and over) is hoping to keep the ranking on The Purpose Driven Life low so that low quality books written by Nixonites and fired White House personel can make the top ten list. That should tell you a thing or two about his values and his lack of purpose. My minister and I also talked about people who commit suicide. I asked him if he thought that God would allow these people into his Kingdom since taking a life, even your own is clearly against God's commandments. My minister thought for a second or two and said he thought that God would allow those people into his Kingdom if for no other reason than people who dropped to the level of comitting suicide are probably not responsible; they are so far gone that they cannot be held responsible for their actions. Perhaps God will look at this sole 1 star basher in the same way (I hope for his sake) and forgive him for wasting so much valuable time that could be better utilized and for attacking the word of God. Forgive him for he knows not what he does and obviously lives a very boring life.
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Summary: not inspiring at all
Review: nothing new, full of dogmas, returned to the costco after 30 days. To finish reading REALLY needs effort.
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Summary: Mind opening forward thinking purpose. Read SB 1 or God
Review: I went into this book a bit prejudiced from all the negative comments and reviews, but as I found for my self, this is a true help to purpose. Rick Warren say's start your purpose now, not just for the after life, but start purpose and enjoy your purpose right now. It does take dedication and commitment. The major part of our purpose is if we can be trusted in the next life by displaying our light as Christ has now in the present. A book that really helped me and I highly recommend is SB 1 or God by Karl Maddox and demonstrates how we can be trusted and learn to trust. Trust is everything, Love, obedience, family, work, everything, once you can be trusted you have purpose for existence.
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Summary: where is the beef?
Review: Warren does offer much sound advice in The Purpose Driven Church and The Purpose Driven Life. Commendably, he attempts to support most points with "nearly a thousand quotations from Scripture" (Life, p. 325). But the "scriptures" he quotes are speculative paraphrases such as The Message (see TBC Q&A Oct. '95) by Eugene H. Peterson (NavPress). The Purpose Driven Life never presents the biblical gospel, which alone saves. Readers are told to "learn to love and trust God's Son, Jesus this is a watered down Gospel and surely not the Gospel of our Lord and Savior. Tragically Rick Warren is a graduate of Schuller's Institute and it shows in liberalizing of the Gospel which has become "another Gospel"
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Summary: Inspiring Book
Review: What an inspiring book! This book deals with important issues that we all have in the back of our minds in easy-to-understand ways. I highly recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: I took what was relevant for me and left the rest .....
Review: I love books that give me a lifted feeling of optimism and faithful adherance, this book did that for me. At the same time I found myself distancing myself from a few of the author's opinions. Rick Warren has been thoroughly educated on the Bible but often paraphrases his own interpretations as fact from the Bible and I have to admit I found that to be somewhat of a nagging disturbance. Evangelicals and anyone who fanatically promotes anything without allowing for questioning makes me uncomfortable because then the issues are more about control and not faith to me. I have faith of my own doing and it is strong but it is actually often eroded by those who reject incredulity as an attack. Christ himself embraced skeptics and gave them faith with acts of profound love. The only way to cement a faith is to question a faith and then recognize through the cycle that faith is not defineable. I feel it, I create it within myself and I may or may not choose to share it. To me books with absolute black and white prostletizing are to be read with a degree of skepticism. I read this - enjoyed it thoroughly but it is not the Gospel and I don't think the author intended it to be. I think the intent is exactly what it offers. Optimism and the internal strength to be your own best coach walking a Christian path.
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Summary: Good for group discussion, but flawed
Review: Many people have reviewed this book, some at considerable length. I will touch on only two points that I think are key to my view of this book:
First, Rev. Warren is a conservative Christian and that brings much baggage (as does being a liberal Christian) including being highly reptetitive about a very few points and stating opinions as Bible truths (usually opinions that can drive people from Christ, not to Him).
Second, and paradoxically for a conservative Christian, Rev. Warren's numerous Biblical references overwhelmingly refer to paraphrases and "translations" or modern "updates" of scripture. Paraphrases aren't scripture and shouldn't be treated as such in any way. The NRSV is a fine and apparently most accurate version of scripture. That should have sufficed.
Having said that, I think this book is an excellent source for group discussion, as long as there is a buffer of experienced believers between Rev. Warren's bias and new Christians. Used improperly, this book could be an impediment, not a path.
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Summary: Unhappy? This is one way to change your life
Review: Rick Warren's book is a wonderful way to get in touch with what God's will for your life is. It is a way to have better direction in your life. Sometimes, I know I can get caught up in the tyranny of the urgent...things that need my attention RIGHT NOW! With this book, I was able to redefine what needs to be done now, which in turn allows me to spend more time doing the things that mean the most to me. I highly recommend this book!
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