Review: Not What I Expected
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
This book did not turn out to be what I expected or what I needed. It was too broad and vague and didn’t deal in many specifics or give suggestions on how to break pride. It worked more on convincing readers of the need to break pride, which, in choosing to read the book, we have already indicated we recognize. It was very repetitive, saying the same thing over and over multiple times. In addition, Bixler's main example of pride was in feeling superior to others. That's never been my form of pride. Mine in more in the area of accomplishments and recognition. She had a few statements that I’m not even sure I believe. For example, she says that wanting “to be more filled with the Holy Spirit is actually pride,” which is a sin. Bixler also makes contradictory statements. At one place she says that sin keeps us from building a relationship with God, then later she writes it is “pride that keeps us from forming and building a relationship with God, not sin.” At least the book was short and didn't waste too much time, and it wasn’t a bad read.