Chazown

Book Review: Chazown http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifby Craig Groeschel

Craig Groeschel does a great job at outlining the processes that help us to realize the vision for our lives. God has placed within each human heart a desire to seek out and find our purpose in this world.

One thing that I really appreciate about Craig in this book is that he outlines his own journey, along with some of his mistakes or failures on the way to finding and fulfilling his purpose and calling in this life.

By combining understanding the core values that each one of us have come to live our lives by and identifying the spiritual gifts that God has given us he helps to lead us on a journey of discovery of our personal vision. Without a vision, the people perish, the scriptures say and so it is in our own personal lives. We can list aimlessly without purpose and vision in our personal lives as well.

Craig also takes us into the practical of how do you live out your vision day to day. He outlines five areas that we have to become disciplined in if our vision is going to be effective and fulfilled: our relationship with God, our relationships with other people, our finances, our health and our work. I really appreciated this approach because I believe our faith is supposed to be lived out in our daily life, this is what it truly means to be a disciple. We must take what we believe, and apply it to our lives and the choices we make each and every day.

This is a good book for pastors to offer to those within their church who have leadership potential as well as those who are already leaders who want to sharpen their personal vision.