In many ways Robert H. Schuller was the model of the modern megachurch pastor. He can be seen as a successor to Norman Vincent Peale in his blend of religion and self-help. They both preached that what you
think matters.
Schuller wrote about
what he called possibility thinking. He put it in the title of his book Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking.
Possibility thinking is
a focus on how valuable ideas can be implemented and worthy goas achieved.
Schuller contrasts this with impossibility thinking, a focus on why something
won’t work or can’t be done. He believed a lot of great ideas were killed at
conception in a rush to find problems, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Move
Ahead has the feel of
a how-to book. Each chapter looks at some
aspect of practicing possibility thinking. He breaks them down into a list of
steps; he even numbers each step. He elaborates on the steps, usually including
an illustrative story. Many of these stories draw on his experience founding a
new church in California or on the experiences of members of
his congregation. Other come from famous people, many of whom he had met.
Schuller speaks often of
Christ and his religious faith. However, if
you removed these references from Move
Ahead, it would still be a self-help book—just a little shorter.
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