Wild at Heart?

[Janette]

Let's be clear.

I'm not judging the man who wrote the book.
That's God's job.

I am also not arguing whether or not this book has ever helped anyone.

Joseph and all of Jacob's bloodine were helped (in the long run) by the anger of the other 11 brothers and the false accusations of Pontifer's wife. God uses evil for His holy purposes often.

He's God -- HE can do that.
We're not God.
We should be really careful about trying to do that.

And to be clear, I'm not even saying this book is evil. It's simply flawed.

So...without judging the man, I may judge the work, and I find it lacking in several areas. The book falls out of agreement with Scripture. Chad kindly posted the location of reviews that you can read which address just how/where the book falls out of agreement with Scripture.

Without judging the man who wrote the book, I may judge the practice of lifting the philosophies in the book up to the status of "Teaching" as if they were Divinely Inspired, and I find that practice to be incorrect and dangerous. It's not a Teaching, and it's not even in 100% agreement with the Scripture we already have.

Lastly, there is a fundamental difference between adventure and danger.
In seeking the former, you may stumble into the latter, but stumbling is not jumping.

 

[SpiritLedEd]

I read "Wild At Heart" and I still have it among my books. I would love for anyone to show me where in that text the book promotes the gay life style.

SLE

 

[tirapet]

Can someone outline what is supposedly wrong with Wild At Heart please? Like specifics?
I recently bought it for my boyfriend because a friend recommended it, so now I'm curious if there's anything I should bring up to him prior reading the novel.

 

[james1523]

Can someone outline what is supposedly wrong with Wild At Heart please? Like specifics?
I recently bought it for my boyfriend because a friend recommended it, so now I'm curious if there's anything I should bring up to him prior reading the novel.

Quote from the author ""If Christian men are going to change from a pitiful, wimpy bunch of "really nice guys" to men who are made in the image of God, they must reexamine their preconceptions about who God is and recover their true "wild" hearts".

He suggests that recovering a man's "wild side" will make them into the image of God.
When the Bible teaches that it is only through Christ by which we all (regardless of our natural disposition, weak or not) are made into the image of God.
He forgets that Jacob was essentially a mommy's boy and God chose him over the hairy manly warrior Esau (Gen 25:27).
Someone should remind him that God chooses the weak over the strong because the weak can show God's power and glory the best.
The way I judge the value of a Christian book, is to count how many times Christ is mentioned.
He sets masculinity according to his definition of what it is to be a man as the goal instead of Christ.
He uses the movie Braveheart and old testament examples of what a man should be.
But Christ is the perfect example of what a real man is, and unfortunately the book mentions little about Christ and how to be more like Him.
I believe his motive is to counter the Christian "nice guy" attitude, and general weakness in the church. The book is good for revealing the problem. But he does not really present Christ or the power of the Holy Spirit as the solution.