Everybody Loves a Good Cheeseburger

Today's post is a book review that I'm doing as part of the Blogging for Books program. Enjoy!

On the day that I received Bruce Wilkinson's You Were Born for This in the mail, I also received a McDonald's cheeseburger for free. And though I didn't see it at the time, God was probably laughing at me as I bit into my burger and opened my book. You'll understand why shortly.

You see, when I opened this book, I wasn't sure what to expect. I saw somewhere that Wilkinson had written The Prayer of Jabez, so I figured this couldn't be that bad. Unfortunately, I hadn't read Wilkinson's best-seller (which he was very adamant to plug for the first 50 pages of this book), so I had no clue what I was getting myself into.


Reading You Were Born for This was a lot like eating that McDonald's cheeseburger I mentioned earlier. I'll give you one guess as to which I enjoyed more, and let's just say you should choose the latter.

First of all, a cheeseburger has ingredients that, in and of themselves, are probably decent for you. Meat, cheese, bread. Good stuff. Wilkinson's book, in the same way, has a couple of things that, in and of themselves, are good things. For instance, Scripture. Scripture is definitely good for you. Unfortunately, just like a McDonald's cheeseburger, some people can ruin even the best of what's good in life.

Wilkinson twists, turns, stretches, recomposes, and revamps Scripture to develop several sets of "keys," "secrets," and other mystical sounding jargon that can be found nowhere in the Bible. However, he claims he is giving us a peek into how things work in Heaven, so he's gotta be telling the truth, right?

All in all, Wilkinson's You Were Born for This is nothing more than an infomercial in book form with poor penmanship to boot - it wasn't even an enjoyable read! And like my McDonald's cheeseburger, I knew I had to finish it, no matter how much I simply wanted to ignore it and let it rot away in the back of my fridge.

Thank God I got through it - talk about a miracle. Of course, I didn't follow Wilkinson's 4 steps, 7 keys, or 100 fundamentals, so maybe I'm a little off when it comes to my idea of miracles. After all, it seems that Wilkinson has it down to a science that the rest of us can't quite seem to understand without his help, even if it is what we were born for.

So, much like a McDonald's cheeseburger, I warn you to steer clear of this book. Spend your time doing something more productive, like sleeping, and save yourself a headache. Heck, it might even lower your cholesterol!

(I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.)

Have you read a good book lately? What about any bad ones? I'd love to hear about it (or anything else)! Just leave a comment or send me an e-mail!