Kristen Minjares

I don’t like this book. It was confusing. Every exercise tells you to apologize to God for not being a good enough Christian. He is always saying you’re not doing enough.You said other people only depending on Jesus for salvation and not putting in the work are going to hell, but then say how can we can lean on Jesus to do the work instead of doing it ourselves? Make up your mind! I cried reading this book because it made me so confused. It even hurt my prayer life really badly because the author was saying I’m not taking it seriously enough, and I have to be making sure I’m doing all these things to respect God when I pray. Why can’t I talk to God like He is my best friend too?? I felt not good enough and like I was failing every time I attempted to pray so I got really sad and it distanced me from God. Still working to get back onto the level I had with Him before. Maybe this is beneficial for some people, but it was way too intense for me. I was reading “Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools” at the same time and it was so much more comforting and intimate than this book. I felt like I was being reprimanded the whole time. This guy’s tone reads like he thinks he is so much better than you just because you decided to read what he has to say. I’ll never get back the time I spent reading this reprimanding esque book.