My self-help Bible?

Posted on September 25, 2017 
Filed under Resources

“The self-help industry is flourishing. Isn’t that ironic?

The industry is built on the premise that all you need for happiness, success, and contentment is within you, yet it peddles self-improvement programs as the key to becoming a better you. The endless supply and demand for the latest life changing-book betrays the fact they never actually deliver the transformation we long for.

The question is, have we taken on a self-help approach to reading the Bible? …”

– Ruth Schroeter, Associate Minister at St Andrew’s Cathedral, writes in The Australian Church Record. (Photo courtesy St. Andrew’s Cathedral.)