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Summary: 10 REASONS YOU'LL BENEFIT FROM READING THIS
Review: (These are just a few of the insights from the first chapters)
1. YOUR LIFE IS ABOUT FAR MORE THAN JUST BEING HAPPY. The purpose of your life is greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your own happiness. You were made BY God and FOR God- and until you understand that, life will never make sense. You were created for 5 great purposes.
2. YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT. Regardless of the circumstances of your birth, God has a reason for creating you. Significance does not come from status, success, or salary but from understanding how much you matter to God.
3. EVERYONE"S LIFE IS DRIVEN BY SOMETHING. Most people are driven by guilt, or worry or fear, or resentment, anger, insecurity, the craving for approval, or a host of other self-defeating emotions. God wants your life to be driven by his purposes.
4. KNOWING YOUR PURPOSE WILL GIVE MEANING TO YOUR LIFE, simply your life, focus your life, motivate your life, and prepare you for eternity.
5. YOU WERE MADE TO LAST FOREVER. One day your heart will stop but that won't be the end of you. You'll spend far more time (trillions of years- forever!) on the other side of death than you do here on earth ( 60-90 years).
6. LIFE IS PREPARATION FOR ETERNITY. It is the; the dress rehearsal, the practice session, the warm up lap before the real race. To live as if all there is to life is
here and how" is stupid, short-term thinking, and a fatal mistake.
7. THE WAY YOU SEE YOUR LIFE SHAPES YOUR LIFE. Life is not a circus, a rollercoaster, a carousel, a game, a party, or any of the other common metaphors you may have heard. Life is a Trust, a Test, and a Temporary Assignment.
8. WHAT YOU LIVE "FOR" IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU LIVE "ON", OR "WHO YOU LIVE WITH."
9. ONE DAY, you will stand before God and he is going to ask you two crucial questions. The first will determine WHERE you spend eternity; the second will determine WHAT YOU DO in eternity. This book prepares you to answer those two questions correctly.
10. YOU WERE PUT ON THIS PLANET BY GOD TO FULFILL FIVE PURPOSES. The rest of the book explains these in practical details. It's jammed packed with information you can't afford to miss. At the end of each chapter there is a daily point to ponder, a question to consider, and a verse to remember. I'll never be the same after reading this book. Take the back cover advice of Billy Graham,"Make sure you're not missing the point of your life- read this book!" I recommend you get the companion workbook, The Purpose Driven Life Journal too. It's no wonder why this book sold over a million copies in its first four months in print.
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Summary: Billy & Franklin Graham, Max Lucado, & more highly recomend
Review: Be sure to read the "back cover" available here at Amazon. You will be amazed at what these well known speakers and authors say. I'm on my second read and love it. While some have critized the simplicity, I highly applaud its simplicity.
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Summary: Eat Chocolate Instead....
Review: ... if you want cheap warm fuzzies. This book offers nothing in the way of new thinking and uses paraphrased and out-of-context scriptures to make blanket statements that might even be considered heretical to some. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: Life changing book
Review: This book will change your entire outlook of life. It is based upon the truth that God created each of us individually, and that he established a purpose for each of us, long before we were conceived. The book explains how much God loves each of his creations and what he has done for us. There are 40 chapters and it is highly recommended to read one chapter per day for 40 days in a row, meditating on the chapter thoughts of the day. Scripture backs up all that is said. It is an easy to read and understand book, which gives the truth about God. Our church is studying this book as a congregation and discussing it in smaller groups. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to know God loves and cares about them and anyone who is interested in getting their life on track with God's purpose for them.
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Summary: This Book Will Change Your Life
Review: This is one of those book that will make you want to change your life(For the better). It does not matter if you are a new Christian or a mature Christian, the book is that good!
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Summary: Life Changing
Review: We all have a deep inward yearning for why we are here.
Rick Warren mentors and guides you to understanding and discovery but allows you to choose when to begin the process.
The author puts the complex into a very fresh and simplistic form. It will change your life!
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Summary: Overall, the book is OK.
Review: It appears to be focused toward the new/young Christian. Very simple and practical. Sometimes too simplistic, leaving out essentials for fuller understanding. I didn't like how he quotes scripture with "the Bible says: . . . " instead of just quoting the bible and giving the reference. You have to look for the biblical references at the back of the book. His use of translations seems to fit the verse to his premise. Example: on page 31 is says "The Bible says, 'A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.'" The scripture verse is Proverbs 13:7, when translated from Hebrew says "One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth." (See English Standard Version or "Tahakh: the New JPS translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text") The verse is about pretense, but the author uses the Message version to illustrate how Christians should live a simple lifestyle. I don't argue with the premise, but with the use of the verse which does not teach that. (A bad translation of a verse should not be used for quality teaching. There were many other verses that could have been used.) Overall, an OK book for highschool/junior high students, new Christians who don't real a lot. I would recommend another book for adults: "Knowing God" by J.I. Packer. Richer, fuller, and shorter. Both of these books encourage the reading of the Bible. I would suggest a good translation such as the English Standard Version.
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Summary: A TRANSFORMED READER
Review: This book is amazing. It is good for anyone who wants to live a more fulfilled life, and it has transformed my life. I am a big self-help reader and this one tops them all. Why this one had changed my life so much is that it isn't based on self-reflection but on the word of God and his purpose for our lives.
Each day builds on the next in such a way that you become a changed person. You cannot just take one or two days on its own. To do that would be missing the point. It's a complete journey that takes place over 40 days, however, I know that it will be a handbook for the rest of my life. Rick Warren is an amazing writer. I'd love to go to his church!! I have purchased 20 books and have handed 15 out to friends and loved ones who I have shared my testimony with. The Holy Spirit just grabbs you when you start reading. I have always desired an inner peace that passes all understanding. This book along with the Bible will give you that.
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Summary: Disappointingly Shallow and Simplistic
Review: At first I thought that this book would be great for new beleivers but then I realized that some of its teachings are incomplete at best, and wrong at worst. A new Christian who reads this will indeed benefit in the short term but will need to 'unlearn' some principles in this book in order to learn what is needed to enter into the deepest parts of a relationship with God. Chapter 5 is a case in point. Warren asks 'What is your life metaphor?' and suggests that you replace whatever metaphor you have with one of three 'Biblical' metaphors; 'life is a test', 'life is a trust', or 'life is a temporary assignment'. The problem is that we were created with each of these items in mind, but NONE of these is what life is primarily about. To reduce life to merely one of these items is simply shallow and simplistic and missing much of what God has for us. Even to appropriate all three is still limiting if one does not go further. I am a big fan of systematic theology and Chapters 5 and 6 just plain do not jibe with what I have read. Wayne Grudem, Daniel Fuller, and Jonathan Edwards all agree that our primary purpose is to be a repository for God's grace. You see, He has so much grace that He decided to create us to share with. Absolutely everything else comes second to this; testing, trusting, assignments, minisitries, etc. Want a life which fulfills your purpose for being on earth? Worship and love God, deeply, truly, emphatically, and accept His mighty grace. Pursue God with passion and vigor, not letting go until you have that 'peace which surpasses understanding'. You won't necessarily get that from this book. ...
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Summary: WORTH READING AND STUDYING
Review: WE DID THIS BOOK IN A WEEKLY SESSION WITH OUR SMALL GROUP AT CHURCH. IT IS WORTH READING AND STUDYING WITH YOUR BIBLE IN HAND, ALONE, WITH YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER, OR IN A SMALL GROUP.
TAKE IT SLOWLY AND PONDER!
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