This is a portion of a blog by the Jollyblogger about the Purpose Driven Life and some of John MacArthur's critique of the book. Quite good, and this is a segment that resonated with me.
At the moment, PDL is being judged solely on the basis of it's popularity. As far as I have seen, criticisms of the book and the movement have been ruled out of order because of it's popularity. So many people have been so blessed by the book that it must be from God.
Yet, as Anatole French said ""If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." The question to ask is not "is it popular?" but "is it biblically true?"
And I am not arguing that it is all bad. The book has many good features for which it can rightly be praised. But PDL has gone from being a book to being a movement. If it were just a book, we could all sit around and discuss it's pros and cons, we could take the good, throw out the bad and use the book wisely.
But since PDL has become a movement you are either for it or against it. You're in or you're out. If you are against it then you have missed the spiritual wave and are floundering in the ocean.
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