Help Your Self: Today's Obsession With Satan's Oldest Lie

By Stephanie Forbes

Uncovers the deceptiveness of the self-help movement and gives clear wisdom on the danger that lurks when people look within instead of to God for personal and spiritual growth. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891079025
• ISBN13: 9780891079026
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Crossway Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Read and Take Notes!!!

Stephanie Forbes has written a powerful testimony of what has influenced our total culture, from "positive thinking" to "self-talk," and how it has impacted not only our culture, but the Christian believer as well. This is not only an indictment against the "feel good" and "prosperity teaching" that's in our society, but a wake-up call to believers to use their minds and examine biblically what has passed for "truth," when in fact it has been Satan's oldest lie. She writes with conviction, and being a newspaper reporter, she doesn't bend to put a "spin" on her topics, unlike her peers. She is honest, forthright, and uses integrity, and if you disagree with her, she gives many sources to check it out for yourself. Help yourself and do just that. You might find out that you have been fooled. Highly recommended!!!

Sense of Urgency

Stephanie Forbes has written what I believe is one of the best treatments of this subject, although not one which will be embraced by those who have been seduced by the "health and prosperity" crowd or the "self-love" group, or even all the other "self help" movement types. As a scientist first and reporter second, she wrote this book in response to being a "ghost writer" on a book on success, and was so bothered by the concepts and teachings, she had to respond. Or should I say "compelled to act." She writes well and convincingly, and the book should be read by all the MLM and entrepreneurials out there. I won't spoil the meat, but towards the end, she summarizes by stating that "one of the dangers of self-help is that it looks a bit like Christianity-albeit a superficial and watered-down version with all their perilous, dark, mysterious, and demanding elements of real Christianity removed...It is a religion that appeals to our laziness because it requires of us neither troublesome discipleship nor intellectual vigor. We need not submit to the lordship of Christ. We need not study to show ourselves approved. We need only believe that we are in every way and at all times worthy of all goodness and all godness." This is a powerful critique, and to support her thesis, she draws upon those who have used their intellects - C.S. Lewis, Os Guiness, and others to demonstrate the shallowness of this movement. Stephanie Forbes has sounded a ringing indictment against the industry, or is it the "sacred cow" of American secular religion? You be the judge. Read it with a sense of urgency. It demands as much. Then "choose this day who you will serve." Will it be Christ or self?