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by: Rick Warren

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Average Rating: Rating: - This Book Really Changed My Life WOW!!! That is all I can say, I love how practical this book is. I read Purpose Driven Life and God used it to re focus my life on HIS purposes not my purposes. I have read it two times already. The 40 chapter format makes it easy to read and perfect for daily reading. This book is destined to be a classic. The book is not just for Christians but truly for anyone who wants to think about how they spend their life and making a difference with their life. I highly recommend it! Rating: - 10 REASONS YOU'LL BENEFIT FROM READING THIS (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. Rating: - Excellent Supplement to the Bible for Direction and Purpose! Rick Warrren's new book is an excellent read for the person who desperately seeks direction and purpose for life. At the outset, Warren challenges us to believe that we were created for a far greater purpose than just the pursuit of happiness. The text is designed to be a 40-day ( a significant number in the Bible) devotion covering a particular topic and with a relevant Bible verse. Each chapter is around 10 pages and covers five major purposes: 1) You were planned for God's pleasure, 2) You were formed for God's family, 3) You were created to become like Christ, 4) You were shaped for serving God, and 5) You were made for a mission. Warren's purpose is to move the reader from a realization of being loved by God to challenging the reader to express gratitude by loving God and serving others in Jesus' name. Some of the more compelling topics covered were: developing a friendship with God (yes indeed, God wants to be your Friend!), finding a church and fellowship to belong to, dealing successfully with temptation, understanding how God shaped you, thinking like a servant, balancing your life, and living to please God and not man. "Purpose Driven Life" is helpful in that it validates what the Bible already said thousands of years ago. I am now in the process of writing what I believe to be God's purpose in my life. From now on, Lord willing, I will read this book starting January 1 of every year while expecting to learn new insights after each read. All in all, the book is highly recommended and is an excellent supplement to the Bible. Unbelievers will also be challenged to think deeply and critically about why they were created and what their purpose in life is!

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