Purpose Driven Life

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Summary: Community requires commitment. Building community takes honesty, humility, courtesy, confidentiality and frequency (of contact).

My thoughts: Of the first three references, two are really way-out paraphrases. This is getting old.

There’s actually good advice here; too bad he sometimes supports it with twisted scripture. Community can’t deepen without honesty, but isn’t helped by brutal honesty. “God hates gossip, especially when it is disguised as a ‘prayer request’ for someone else.”

Most of the chapter is not especially deep advice, but it’s good, and there’s not a single threat of hell in the chapter. Why couldn’t he have gone straight to this?