I was excited to get, How To Reach Your Full Potential For God, by Charles Stanley. I know it is time to refocus my life in service to God, and since I enjoy and benefit from Charles Stanley’s radio sermons, I thought this book would be perfect. Alas — not so much.
Stanley’s “How to” book, in my opinion, would work much better as a group study then a solitary read. Interestingly enough, there is a study guide. If I weren’t already so burnt-out from the enormous task of trying to read and utilize the suggestions and information in the book — and answering the hundreds of soul-searching questions — I might buy the study and give it another go. Maybe later, after I’ve let my brain rest and recoup.
I am sad that I cannot recommend this book. I have long been an admirer of Charles Stanley, but I think this theme is just too ambitious for one reader to tackle by him- or herself.
I am a member of the Thomas Nelson “Book Sneeze” blogger program and would like to thank Thomas Nelson Publishers for providing me with a copy of this book to review.
I’d like a book of just thought provoking questions to contemplate.
Dream
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Nessa — yes, just dont try to do it on a deadline!
Maybe it’s one of those books that is better to take and assimilate in small chunks rather than the whole book at a time.
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Barbara — that is what I was getting at. This is not a reading book.
I LOVE Charles Stanley! My absolute favorite of his was Living The Extraordinary Life, followed closely by Finding Peace. I still have a couple of his that I have not read yet – and haven’t even ordered this one you mention yet… when it comes to books, I’m BOOKED!
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Melli — I have always loved Charles Stanley, too. I will always love his radio sermones and I have read a couple of his other books. This book, however, is not for simply reading. It is for very slow ingestion and study.
That can be a good thing too…
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I don’t like books that make me feel like I’m drinking out of a fire hydrant! Sounds like he could have written several smaller books.
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Linda — smaller books or marketed as a study so one is aware of what what s/he is signing up for. This is very different from other Charles Stanley books. That doesn’t make it bad, just mis-marketed.
No Quilly, isn’t it hard to say you can’t read a book of a company who wants to sell books by good reviews?
A friend gave me a copy of Stanley’s ‘Living the Extraordinary Life.’ I haven’t read it but may at least pick and poke in it a little. The friend said I needed the book. I am not sure. I have been living an extraordinary life but am retired from that now.
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Jim — they ask me to be honest. I was honest. And the hardest part of writing this review is that I very much like and admire Charles Stanley and have learned much from his teachings.