THE APPROVAL FIX
How to break free from people pleasing
By Joyce Meyer,
Hodder & Stoughton. 139 pages. £8.99
ISBN 978 1 444 785 6654
YOU CAN BEGIN AGAIN
By Joyce Meyer
Hodder & Stoughton. 197 pages. £13.99
ISBN 978 1 444 785 364
She is the director of a multi-million dollar ministry, she preaches at packed-out stadium tours, she is a #1 New York Times best-selling author, she came in at 17 on Time Magazine’s list of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America, ahead of J I Packer, she influences millions through TV broadcasts and the sale of her books and this influence is not just in America, but spreads into Europe too.
She is coming to London next spring. Her popularity may be linked to her personal story that shows she is a survivor who has come through hardship, or maybe it is her no-nonsense presentation, or perhaps it is the attractiveness of her message to hurting people. I confess that when I came to review her latest books I approached them with scepticism, not least because of my concern about her multi-million dollar lifestyle. So I tried hard to read these books with the following question in my mind – if I picked these up at a local bookstore and knew nothing of Joyce Meyer, would they help me to follow Jesus?
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