Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

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Summary: Search for an Active Church
Review: Man is in desperate need of a book that will allow them to express their unique abilities. This book makes an excellent effort to do just that. It emphasizes man's basic desire to be adventurous, and to have a real purpose in life. What it lacked were ideas on how to be a kind and considerate person while expressing oneself. Eldredge touched on the fact that man wants adventure, but he failed to reconcile it with the idea of compassion and the enjoyment of peace and beauty. What Christian youth need is a way to be kind and loving, while being adventurous. This book fails to reconcile those ideas.
Eldredge's ideas on church are excellent as he challenged the over-organization of church today. The idea of church with a set order of events and no real heart connection has become a huge problem today. Youth have rejected the notion of church all over the world for its stuffy environment and rules. I read an article about Eldredge in Christianity Today, that attacked him for leaving his congregation for a year. His reason for leaving was that he might come to enjoy something that for many Christians is a heartless activity that involves no emotional connection. I applaud Eldredge in his attempt to step out of the box and help Christians see that life is not all about rules. It's about having a real relationship with God, a fact far to often overlooked. Read Galatians 3:23-25 and see what you think.


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Summary: appears rather biased...don't you think?
Review: Apparently the author seems to believe that all men are strictly heterosexual too.......you really want a way to "find" yourself? Sorry guys, finding your inner beast does not require you to dance around a campfire with the talking stick while dressed in animal skins.......knock the chip off your shoulder and practice some common sense.....and that, I can assure you, is truly what's in short supply in this country right now.

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Summary: Fight for your Heart to win it back.
Review: I was born in africa and lived their for 21 years. People that have not been in the wild may struggle to identify that adventure spirit that is within themselves. For me it was no problem. Living in densely populated Amsterdam I did not realise how my heart longed for a way to express itself. To roam free and just be the way I was made.

This is a tough subject. We are taught by various sources of what it means to be a man. This is worth more that one read so buy the audio CD. And do give a copy to friends and family members (men and women).

My last recommendation is to read the "The Journey of Desire" also by John Eldredge.

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Summary: Truly scary!
Review: It's truly amazing that this kind of book finds a publisher at all after 9-11, let alone a Christian publisher. To say that women, by nature, want to be rescued and that men, by nature, want to rescue them is not Biblically grounded; it is bigoted!

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Summary: A God made in John Eldredge's image
Review: Received this book as a gift on this Christmas. Not knowing the author and what this book was about, since it has a title talks about a man's soul I finished reading this book in two days. I must warn every reader to take a grain of salt when reading this book as I found much of the saying in this book are unbiblical. As to the heart of man (an unregenerated soul that is), God declares "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). To enter the Kingdom of God, one must be born again by receiving a new heart reigned by Christ (John 3:5). Without a heart reigned by Christ, whatever one does is futile (Luke 19:27). If you want to know a heart that pleases God (not to please man, nor *self* as being promoted by "Wild at Heart"), read Dr. Martyn Llyod-Jones "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount."

The secret of a man's soul is to love God and enjoy Him forever. To spend one's life pursuing the fleshly desire such as a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue only leads one's soul to emptiness and void. Worst yet, it is a life after Satan. Bottom line - "Wild at Heart" is just another book from modern self-appointed evangelical about man's "self esteem" (Satan's old trick in Genesis 3:5). I would not recommend this book to anyone.