Purpose Driven Life

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my church did the Purpuse driven life

same. I was about to die of boredom

Is it a boring book? Did the pastor preach the book or just read it? Did you all think it was a good book, just boring?

well the paster gave a copy to each family in the church and we were spossed to read like a chapter a night at the dinner table...but it ended up taking us like a year to finish the stupid book cause we would read a lot less then one chapter... and the paster was way ahead of us anyway.... the funny thing is I cant remmber one thing about the sermens or the book exept that the writer would constantly use the phrase "Ought not" and it drove me crazy!

that all i remember too

[Jonathan]

Our family has it, although I have only read the first two chapters or so. It already seems very "dumbed down" to me... like surrounding the truth of the Bible with fluffy, cotton candy-ish content(can't think of analogies at the moment, my apologies) and making a whole book out of that. I already feel like even the first two chapters would be drastically shortened if all the extraneous stuff was taken out. I don't know- I just feel like reading the Bible itself and relying on God would be a much better way to discover God's purpose for my life and be reminded of how to live.

Well said, especially the last sentence.

-Jonathan

[Thursday Next]

Our church went through the books together and I found I got more out of the messages then I got out of the book itself. My main problem with the book was you could never tell when a translation or a paraphrase was being used and the reference were all in the back. Some of what Rick Warren had to say was good, but some of it wasn't. If you're a Christian and you want a really good book to read... The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus is really good. We just went through it as a small group for young adults and he had some really good insights.