As presented in the Dec 24 blog, the introduction to it is repeated below. I just minutes ago read all 4200 words of your free gift again, actually now for the third time. I am so impressed with Chapter One of the John Eldredge and Brent Curtis book titled “Sacred Romance,” because I do believe it captures the “real time in this moment the state of the union for too many of today’s nomadic free wheeling Christ Followers (CF’s).”
And since that possible condition is so contrary, dear reader, to the clarion call of the Gospel of Christ, I am inviting you once more, assuming you missed the opportunity prior, to take 15 minutes to potentially begin the journey to restore your soul.
Prior Introduction:
Just Wednesday (12/21) when I came in for lunch I reached for a newly arrived used book, Sacred Romance, by an interesting author, John Eldredge, and before going back out to work, I’d read the first chapter twice and I realized he’d struck a home run for me. My Eldredge book guru responded immediately to my affirming text of the book with “That is a great book. Read ‘Beautiful Outlaw’ next”, to which I responded “I’ve been an outlaw all my life since my loving though, “time driven father,” had taught me to jaywalk before I was even seven, and somehow my renditions of taking short cuts in life for decades did not turn out so beautiful! My image of Eldredge prior to this book was that he communicates well with the “rugged mountain man no non-sense masculine crowd” of today’s CF’S etc, but this book, “Sacred Romance” I believe is effectively targeting the “compliant rank and file card carrying weekly pew dwellers” as well as the live-streamers now scattered across the institutional church landscape.
So, if you’ve been internally restless recently realizing suddenly your dominant posture is unwittingly being a compliant sheep, or perhaps, too often found thinking “There is something missing in all of this” which then, soon leads to we losing our passion for life, after which a despondency or despair may set in, which we again, just can’t seem to shake free from, so in time, we verbally confess “My heart’s just not in it!” and then exit in some too often, most miserable fashion! Definitely not so good when you’re to be a “truth teller ambassador type” in His community!
Actually, Chapter One serves beautifully as both an introduction / prologue. Envision your 2023 with the ends knocked out of all your ruts. Perhaps you need to read a chapter each day from Proverbs every month for a spell to broaden your perspective of biblical wisdom and common sense as the evilness of our culture engulfs us.
So here is your Christmas present from me this year. Go to the Dec 24 blog below directly to where Chapter One begins! And Amazon Prime has used copies shipped for less than $5.00. Enjoy!
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