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The Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life

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So many books about Jesus and Christianity focus on anything but Jesus and Christianity. This book gives positive insight into the types of changes that you can make to see REAL Results in your life. This book shows that Christianity is not about rules and do's and don'ts, but about the type of real life changes that can be brought about by internal changes. Salvation (which means deliverance) is not something that can be imputed to the believer by a set of rules, but by a change that can only occur by a transforming relationship with Jesus. Always wanted to be a Christian but didn't think you could keep your brain and your happiness...Read this book and do both.

Jesus' commandments and example of behaviors that can transform your life from sickness to health, from death to life. Len Sweet has fun with this book, but what he says is deadly serious -- it could save your life (literally and figuratively, physically and spiritually)! Highly recommended.

Our Sunday School chose this book for a study and we were very disappointed. Toward the end of the book, we had dropped from 12 people to 4 people. The idea of the book was great, but it was not well executed. The main complaint from the group members is that it was not well written and very hard to follow. The author would make one argument and then present the counter argument in the middle of his evidence for his primary argument. For example, "Jesus says you should do X. Jesus did X here. Jesus did the opposite of X here." Other times, arguments for the author's point just did not make sense. For example, the author argued that the story of the prodigal son was supposed to be funny. In the end, we skimmed the chapters and spent about 5 minutes discussing them in order to just finish the book.

If you are going to use this book for your study group, I would strongly recommend having one person buy the book first and read through it.

The concept the writer tried to develop is unique and pertinent to growing Christians. However, I found the vocabulary, citations, and the lack of flow in the topic to be exhausting to follow.

Learned a lot and just love this book. A must for everyone to increase leadership knowledge.