A review by lydiajlong
The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life by Laurie Beth Jones
inspiring
fast-paced
2.5
"A personal mission statement acts as both a harness and a sword -- harnessing you to what is true about your life, and cutting away all that is false."
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There are some very helpful items in this book for people struggling to figure out their mission or vision in life. I would encourage other books that would be more helpful -- to start, I would much rather encourage someone to read Garden City by John Mark Comer and I believe something like that would be more meaningful for someone.
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My concern is how Laurie Beth Jones uses Scripture and even at one point, I think she tries to summarize the gospel and very clearly has the gospel all wrong. Or at the least, she crafts a confusing paragraph that can point people in the opposite way of the gospel.
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There are some helpful exercises Laurie provides that could help people create a mission statement for their life, but I would encourage you to go into this book with a lot of discernment.
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There are some very helpful items in this book for people struggling to figure out their mission or vision in life. I would encourage other books that would be more helpful -- to start, I would much rather encourage someone to read Garden City by John Mark Comer and I believe something like that would be more meaningful for someone.
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My concern is how Laurie Beth Jones uses Scripture and even at one point, I think she tries to summarize the gospel and very clearly has the gospel all wrong. Or at the least, she crafts a confusing paragraph that can point people in the opposite way of the gospel.
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There are some helpful exercises Laurie provides that could help people create a mission statement for their life, but I would encourage you to go into this book with a lot of discernment.