[bksvol-discuss] Just Submitted -- Wild At Heart
- From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:47:05 -0500 (EST)
Just submitted, as an .rtf file:
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
by John Eldredge
Here is the long synopsis:
John Eldredge believes what really is in the heart / of men has been badly
missed. "When all is said and done, I think most men believe God put them on
the earth to be a good boy," writes Eldredge in Wild at Heart. "The problem
with men, we are told, is that they don't know how to keep their promises, be
spiritual leaders, talk to their wives, or raise their children. But if they
will try really hard, they can reach the lofty summit of becoming... a nice
guy. That's what we hold up as models of Christian maturity: Really Nice Guys."
Now in all your boyhood dreams growing up, did you ever dream of becoming a
nice guy. Ladies, was the Prince of your dreams dashing... or merely nice.
Eldredge believes that this dedication to niceness is the reason there are so
many tired and lonely women, so many fatherless children, and so few men
around. He writes, "We've taken away the dreams of a man's heart and told him
to play the man. As C. S. Lewis said, 'We castrate the gelding and bid him be
fruitful.'"
Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live,
and a beauty to rescue. That is how he bears the image of God; that is what God
made him to be.
This should prove to be an easy validation as the entire book was read and
edited while scanning.
All pages accounted for.
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