The Purpose Driven Life Book Report

Yes, it is true Christians are like everyone else, and the reason for that is like everyone else they are human. Christians are sinners like everybody; not perfect beings who have it all together. Wanting to get one’s own way or buying a lot of things they do not necessarily need or “not being able to live without their smartphone” (Let us just note that everyone can live without their cellphones; humans did it for countless generations before us) is not something you lose automatically once you become a Christians. That takes very much self-control one of the fruits of the Spirit. As Rick Warren mentions in his book, The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here for, “Fruit always matures and ripens slowly,” so even though a person is a …show more content…
First off, when you are hanging out with your friends you are joining them in fellowship and engaging in the community. A fellow Christian friend or Non-Christian friend, when Christians interacting either one these they are properly, is one way fulfilling a function of the Biblical Church, that is fellowship/communion, as we discussed in class. Besides, our friends, as Kevin De Young and Greg Gilbert explained in their book, What Is the Mission of the Church, are within our moral proximity (183). This means that because they are close to us, we, as their friend, have a moral obligation to get together in fellowship to disciple each other in the truth of God’s true Word and help both of us grow in our spiritual relationship with our Creator and Savior. If a Christian does not do this with those close to him, he is sinning and failing to fulfill part of the mission Jesus Christ commissioned us with. Thus it is a great thing for Christians to want to hang out with their friends, so that they have more opportunity to disciple them. Second, aiming for decent grades is a good goal for Christians to do. As Cornelius Plantinga Jr. wrote in