I have the book and always mean to start reading it. There are 30 days worth of reading and written exercises, and it overwhelms me.
It's basically an eat when hungry, stop when satisfied learning device book. She had a bestseller with it in the 80's before she turned Christian. After she accepted Christ, she revised the book with a Christian theme. If you don't own the book, make sure you get the revised edition, not the older one that some used bookstores still sell.
Weigh Down Diet was a much easier read, but Gwen Shamblin's rejection of the trinity was a huge disappointment to me. My husband and I took Weigh Down classes at our local church and really enjoyed the group years ago. But if she had been more forthcoming about her theology, we would have quit sooner.
Her theology reminds me of an email I received from a Christian friend a while ago. She wrote she thought it was cute that a child she knows calls Jesus God's Secretary. Frankly I was very offended by this wrong teaching. As we know, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are EQUALS. That email summed up Gwen's theology perfectly, and it's one I can't accept.
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