He reaches men’s hearts when he said “Choose the path of humility don’t be a self-promoter, a glad-hander, a poser. Still, he counsels us on how to go forward. Even if we are married, we may have failed to win the beauty. ![]() This book could be a crises! We may have left the real battle and lost the desire for adventure. It is not that women don’t have some of these issues (read his perceptive comments on Eve and helpmeet and her issues, but he is on the trail of men. We find it easy, he says, to turn into posers. What is our deepest fear? He says it’s “…to be exposed, to be found out, to be discovered an imposter, and not really a man.” He says every man feels this and I expect he is right. He says, “Men are angry, and we really don’t know why.” He speaks of our underlying fears. ![]() As for the beauty, “Eve embodies the beauty and the mystery and the tender vulnerability of God.” Not just any battle as “God has a battle to fight, and the battle is for our freedom.” As for adventure, “God is a person who takes risk”‘ and love is the ultimate risk. He says men must have a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. We are bored and have our God-given desire demolished. He, then, sees the irony of people, particularly women, asking where have all the men gone. We have been emasculated, turned into something not masculine at all. ![]() He goes after “discovering the secret of a man’s soul.” He argues that we have been moved away from what God wants us to be, or what a man really is. Having read other later books for men I see the fingerprints of this volume all over them. I am sad that I am only now reading this book that has helped so many men. Here is an influential book by John Eldredge that no new book for men can fail to take into account.
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