The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? Book

At its best, this book is filled with porous theology that is modestly helpful to someone who has no knowledge of Christianity whatsoever. At its worst, Warren mangles scripture to fit his own agenda (40 days to find purpose in your life) and promotes personal experience over the truth found in scripture.

This book is symptomatic of feel-good consumerized Christianity so prevalent in America today. Finding your purpose in life takes far longer than 40 days and it cannot be easily summarized (besides the obvious - to love and worship God). "The Purpose Driven Life" offers nothing new and while not quite heretical, it is very unsound and I cannot recommend this book to anyone. The fact that Warren makes references to the other "Purpose Driven"-branded items in his book that one can purchase pretty much sums it up.

I was given a free copy of this book by a friend at my church a few years ago. I finished reading the book simply to say that I had read it in its entirety. If you want good, thoughtful Christian writers, check out -

Links (for the lazy):
J.I. Packer ("Knowing God")
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Augustine of Hippo ("Confessions" translated by F.J. Sheed, "City of God")
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C.S. Lewis ("Mere Christianity" "The Screwtape Letters" "The Problem of Pain")
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G.K. Chesterson ("Orthodoxy" "The Everlasting Man")
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John Piper
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Ravi Zacharias
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A.W. Pink
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A.W. Tozer (no relations haha)
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I spent way too much time on this. Hope it helps.