If you ever get a chance to attend one of John Eldredge’s seminars or workshops, I highly recommend it. He’s written several books you might want to explore, some of them listed elsewhere in this book. Probably a good place to start is his website: www.ransomedheart.com.
The reason I like this guy so much is that he’s very down-to-earth and easy going. He’s a blue jeans kind of dude that just loves Jesus and wants to share, to heal, to help. And he was one of the first people I saw who integrated a lot of popular culture to help illustrate a spiritual point – both in his books and seminars. He’s big on the idea that we are all in an epic adventure in life, so movies like “Braveheart” (what a great Christ figure character), “Lord of the Rings,” “Last of the Mohicans,” are movies he often pulls from. I could go into each of his books and tell you what I liked or responded to but instead I’ll just say, check his stuff out. I’m sure there’s something you’ll respond to there, but he is well worth the journey of exploration. Here’s just a taste of what he’s about from his book, “Epic.”
“Christianity, in its true form, tells us that there is an Author and that he is good, the essence of all that is good and beautiful and true, for he is the source of all those things. It tells us that he has set our hearts’ longings within us, for he has made us to live in an Epic. It warns that the truth is always in danger of being twisted and corrupted and stolen from us because there is a villain in the story who hates our hearts and wants to destroy us. It calls us up into a Story that is truer and deeper than any other, and assures us that there we will find the meaning of our lives.”
You’ve got your own part of the “Story” to tell, too. Whether a page, or a chapter, or your own volume – Part One, and it’s all important in God’s eyes.
Play your part.
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