wild goose chase review
Posted on August 18, 2008
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i have been given the disctinct honor of reviewing mark batterson’s new book and i am excited to tell you all about it!
brief history: my staff team has been going through a period of transition and reorganization as we strive to be more effective in caring for the poor and needy in orange county and around the world. our team has grown over the past few years and our infrastructure has not kept pace with our ministry, so we determined to build the structure to hold up our current ministry and extend our ability to grow even more in the future! part of this has been a time of fear and uncertainty as we have all had to hold very loosely how we have always operated… and we have always operated very well… but we believe we can go from good to great. part of our process was as a team we read through mark’s first book “In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day”. We broke up into small groups to discuss and process as a part of our organizational changes. we fell in love with the book and the concepts that mark teaches about. when I heard that mark was writing another book I got excited to read and delve further into his unique teachings.
i was not disappointed!
mark’s style is engaging and approachable. i was able to read this book in just a few short sittings (the add kicked in a little… but 2 days is good for me… i have some books on my nightstand for months!). mark extends his teaching from the first book and presents the readers with some new challenges to live a life of surrender and abandon. I don’t want to give too much of the book away… you need to go and purchase a copy right now… seriously… click here and buy one for yourself and your team.
you’re back? did you buy a copy? okay… then I will share some of my favorite quotes.
There are some things you don’t need to pray about. You don’t need to pray about whether you should love your neighbor. You don’t need to pray about whether you should give generously or serve sacrificially. You don’t need to pray whether you should bless someone when it is within your power to do so. God has already spoken. What you need to do is quit praying and start acting.
Guilt has a shrinking effect. It shrinks our dreams. It shrinks our relationships. It shrinks our hearts. It shrinks our lives to the size of our greatest failure. Grace has the opposite effect. It expands our dreams. It expands our relationships. It expands our hearts. And it gives us the courage to chase the Wild Goose all the way to the ends of the earth.
So thank you mark for writing this important book. thank you for reminding us that GOD wants us to be men and women of action. that GOD wants us to surrender completely to him. for the simple message that we have to come out of our cage and CHASE THE WILD GOOSE!
now the legal stuff…
be sure to check out the website www.chasethegoose.com for resources and downloads.
book summary
Most of us have no idea where we’re going most of the time. Perfect.
“Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose.’ The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it’s like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something….
Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.” –from the introduction.
Author Bio:
Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of Washington, DC’s National Community Church, widely recognized as one of America’s most innovative churches. NCC meets in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the city, as well as in a church-owned coffee house near Union Station. More than seventy percent of NCC’ers are single twentysomethings who live or work on Capitol Hill. Mark is the author of the best-selling In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and a widely read blogger (www.markbatterson.com). He lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, Lora, and their three children.
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