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All right, guys, welcome to the new week of the Daily Blade. One of the greatest things about

this weird job that I have being a podcaster and a speaker and doing all this stuff is I get

the opportunity to meet some amazing, awesome people. But one of the best people that I've

ever had the privilege of meeting was John Eldridge. And so John Eldridge is a fantastic

author. He's the author of the

seminal work in men's ministry, and that is Wild at Heart. It's basically the only men's ministry

book that has sold more than like 14 copies. And I've also had the opportunity to have John

Eldridge as a personal mentor of mine. So if you're not familiar with John Eldridge or Wild at

heart, I highly suggest you go get that book and read it.

But kind of the main nexus of that book is this quote from it here, deep in his heart,

every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. And so Wild at Heart as a book really changed how I view manhood and manliness, you know,

certainly in a Christian context.

But there's actually a lesser-known book by John Eldridge that completely shifted how I view

Jesus Christ, our Savior. And so that's his 2011 book, Beautiful Outlaw, Subtitle Here,

experiencing the playful, disruptive, extravagant personality of Jesus.

Now, I remember getting this book, I just love the name, Beautiful Outlaw, but then whenever

I read the subtitle, I remember seeing personality and being like, okay, I'm kind of intrigued

by that, because up to that point, if I'm being honest, I don't know that I had ever really

considered the personality of Jesus, that Jesus was a man that actually had one of those, right?

Because when other people would read the Gospels or when I would read the Gospels myself, I would just kind of read it like Jesus was, you know, this robot or this zombie, like, and then Jesus went to this place, and then he did some things, and people got mad mad and then Jesus left and did more things.

Like that's just kind of how I read it. But then I read Beautiful Outlaw. And each chapter of this

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