``God wants me to try harder.`` ``God blesses me when I\'m Good and punishes me when I\'m bad.`` ``God is angry with me.`` We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives.
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The path to spiritual transformation begins here.
In fact, Smith declares, the most important thing about a person is what they think about God.
James Bryan Smith believes those thoughts determine not only who we are, but how we live.
Some are true--but many are false. ``God wants me to try harder.`` ``God blesses me when I\'m Good and punishes me when I\'m bad.`` ``God is angry with me.`` We all have ideas that we tell ourselves about God and how he works in our lives