Soul Print
Let me start off by saying, that I didn’t necessarily dislike the book. On the contrary, it made me think a lot about my daily life in relation to my relationship with God, and I liked that a lot. The discussion questions at the end were insightful and were great tools for self-analization.
However, there were a few points that I, personally, didn’t care for:
Firstly, the author has a tendency to re-use the same biblical examples over and over again, and it feels more like he’s beating you over the head with them, rather than reinforcing his point. At the beginning, he does explain that the prime example will be David – the problem is that he has a tendency to repeat the same verses.
Secondly, it’s written by a pastor. That in itself doesn’t bother me, don’t get me wrong; but it’s easy for a pastor to tell Christians to live in a certain Godly fashion because that’s the life they were called to. To me, a lot of it came across as “Only if you completely devote your life only to Him, does it mean you love God,” and in reality, everyone loves God differently. In a lot of ways, it felt like he was saying that if you don’t love God in a certain way, you don’t love him at all, and I didn’t agree with that.
On a more positive note, I definitely liked that he used his own life experiences to reinforce what he was saying. It made it easier to relate and understand how his lessons apply in real life experiences.
All in all, I would recommend it to anyone that is trying to rediscover who they are. I’m not sure I will read it again, though.
This book was provided by Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers for review purposes, as part of their Blogging for Books program.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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