You Can Experience . . . A Purposeful Life - Softcover

James Emery White is founder and senior pastor of Mecklenburng Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the fastest growing seeker-oriented churches in the U.S. The author of several books, includingYou Can Experience a Spiritual Life, You Can Experience a Purposeful Life, A Search for the Spiritual,andRethinking the Church,he and his wife, Susan, live in Charlotte with their four children.

This slick, superficial call to a purposeful life relies heavily on motivational anecdotes, drawn from well-trod urban legends and such inspirational Hollywood blockbusters as Chariots of Fire and Mr. Holland's Opus. These tales seem to exist for their own sake, connecting poorly to one another or to the book's ostensible point, which is that life should be purpose-driven. White's writing sounds just like a motivational trump speech, altered not one whit for print, and his ideas are disappointingly formulaic and trite. He adjures readers, for example, "Do associate yourself with those things that reflect your values, and don't associate yourself with those things that violate your values." Oh. (Mar.)

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