About this title: Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America's largest and best-known churches, shows you how to lead a Purpose-Driven Life. This Miniature Edition will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you--both here and now, and for eternity.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Zondervan Books
Date Published: 2002
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"The Purpose Driven Life was recommended by my cousin. What on earth am I here for? The question is asked in this book. This book lets you know you're here for a reason and God has a purpose for your life. You're not a mistake or an accident. You're not here because of your parents error or because of a night of passion. The Purpose Driven Life explains the purpose is far greater than your own personal fulfillment. The purpose of your life is greater than your family, your career or ambitions. If you want to know you have to begin with God. This book states It all begins with God it opened my eye and has changed my thinking. It's in Christ that we find who we are and what we are living for. God knew us long before we knew Him and He had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living. God planned the very day you were born and even this very moment. Rick Warren suggest a 40 Day journey to read it, but it was difficult because I didn't want to put it down. You will probably want to read it over and over again. This book is a blessing! Please read it at your earliest convenience. Thank you."
"A poor book on Christianity, yet I think Jesus Christ still manages to shine through at points in the book. If you desire to learn about the Jesus Christ of the Bible there are far better books, please do not read this one. It consists of much poor theology, old wives proverbs, and does not focus on the cross of Christ (on Christ) nearly as much as it should.
Nevertheless, God can still use this book and I am sure He has, but I think God uses this book more in spite of itself rather than because of itself.
It was weird, Warren says in the beginning of the book "It's not about you," but throughout the rest of the book he seemed to be saying, "It is all about you" (implicitly if not explicitly). I hope Warren will come out stronger for the truths of Christ, of the Gospel, instead of watering it down so much in the future. It seemed like a good book for comfortable Americanized Christians and if there's one thing we American Christians don't need it is another book making us comfortable.
If you want to read a rigorous book on the Gospel of Christ, on the truth claims of the Gospel then I would suggest:
"When I first began reading this book I really enjoyed it. I must mention that at the time I read this, I did not consider myself Christian. After reading the book, and a couple of other by Rick Warren, in addition to reading the bible straight through, I firmly believe that although what Warren writes may be insightful, the full implications behind his text(s) are quite far from reality and these books are intended for the purpose of becoming wealthy rather than closer to God."
"In a way, I hated it, hated coming to this book, hated every moment of it. For years, pop-christian media repulsed me, still does. I can't abide the glossiness of it, the gimmicks, the platitudes. I had avoided virtually all contact with evangelical Christians in America since my teens and considered their writing to be beneath me. Then, a few years ago, I saw Warren on Charlie Rose and was surprised to find a fairly traditional Christian getting along so well in traditionally secular social circles. Even Bono vouched for him! Warren was popular.
Now Warren is unpopular, because of his stance on gay marriage and the fact that Obama, always the politician, stabbed his supports in the back in order to gain some cheap political points with his opposition by offering Warren the bully pulpit on inauguration day. I can't sympathize with the controversy. I oppose the government licensure of both homosexual and heterosexual marriages. I believe politicians should not be involved in marriage in the first place, regardless of the sexual orientation of the couple. It's not that I'm anti-marriage, it's that I'm anti-politician. I don't believe people should have to ask their government for permission to marry. More over, I believe that individuals should receive equal treatment from their government regardless of their martial status. At the same time, I'm a big believer in religious freedom - or freedom of conscience, really. So, if Muslims, by their own conscience, don't want to open their religious marriage ceremonies to gays, so be it, and the same holds for Hindus and Jews and everyone else. I'm not going to hold traditional Christians or Warren to a different standard than I hold any other religion.
Having given some context to my views, ironically, this controversy has nothing to do with the substance of Warren's book, which I did read after seeing him on Charlie Rose. At that point in my life, I began to understand that eloquence is not necessarily related to intelligence and that human beings, even the most plainly spoken and even the most disagreeable, often have something insightful to say. I've always been a humanist, but like many humanists, I once cared more for human artifacts than human beings. I'm starting to see more clearly now, and my effort at reading Warren helped; namely, the experience taught me that patience with disagreeable people and tolerance of unartful prose does not require a lowering of standards but an opening of the mind - reading Warren was edifying. And he's right on many points. Life is, as he puts it, "not about you," and, without contradiction, your life is not without purpose. In fact, turning your attention from yourself to others is a good way to begin understanding the Christian notion of purpose - Jesus famously challenged a rich prince to give up everything he owned for the poor; later he challenged a religious scholar to learn the meaning of the ancient saying: God "desires mercy, not sacrifice." There's a mystery to loving God with all you are and loving others as yourself. Warren's book marked a turning point in my life, a turn for the better, and I maintain, despite the ebb and flow of his popularity, that his book was a good guide for me as I went through the turn."
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