“When all is said and done, I think most men in the church believe God put them on the earth to be a good boy,” writes John Eldredge in Wild at Heart.
What, at first, threatens to be a book length rant on the church and where it has failed men, morphs into a books about where men have failed us all…but where have we men failed? Quite simply: in being men.
Eldredge contends that there are certain qualities within a man that he can’t escape. They are inherent and God given. They are: a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
Somewhere we’ve taken a wrong turn. For some men our greatest battles are the commute to work and our greatest adventure is perhaps drinking too much on a Saturday night and our beauty to rescue…well, she’s too complicated, or we aren’t good enough for her anyway. Or so we believe.
Our biggest goal in life: to be nice.
That isn’t how it’s supposed to be.
We men are wild, and often dangerous, but we live in a wild and dangerous world. Sure, this wild and dangerous side of men have been used for bad, dare we say evil, purposes is not reason enough to try and squash it from man entirely. To make men into nice guys, yet that is exactly what society, and even the church is doing.
This book isn’t a “pro-man” book. It’s not about beating the chest, and grunting, and spitting…it is so much more than that. It’s about rescuing a man’s heart, a man’s dream, a man’s soul.
To remind men there is a battle to fight, an adventure does await, there is a beauty to be rescued, and God is waiting for us to join in it all.
Note: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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