The Purpose Driven Life - What On Earth Am I Here For ?

Rating:★
Category:Books
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Author:Rick Warren
This review is somewhat belated, as I am long 'finished' with this book, and am only attaching the review as extracted from my Facebook account:
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Despite its popularity as a self-help guide for many of today's churches and their members in living out a purposeful, supposingly godly lives, I found the underlying man-bound, earthy nature of the concepts presented by the author hardly more inspiring than any other secular motivational speaker around the world today.

What despaired me further was in learning at first-hand how after studying this book's contents, some individuals, whom I had esteemed for their hitherto unquestionable moral authority, even suggested that this book can be compared with the Holy Word of God.

Not for those with shallow faith seeking to deepen it, and even not for those already with a firm foundation in their faith. Definitely among the lowest in my list of avoidable books.

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