![]() ![]() You are either a masculine, warrior-prince, or a whimpering, nice guy with dad-issues. ![]() In his view, there is nothing worse than being a "nice guy". Eldredge starts with the premise that modern men are no longer the men God meant us to be - that men have been tamed, and are therefore bored. It is provocative, to be sure, but it is way too simplistic. We did this book as part of our men's group this spring. ![]() And now, at this point in my life, the good Lord knew that I needed John Eldredge and the Wild At Heart Boot Camp.Bring your testosterone. God have used them to bless me, especially where I was in my life. Over the years I’ve attended a number of camps like this one. Our last night together, Saturday night, we watched Lone Survivor. We were given 45 minutes to be alone with God and the questions. īut it’s those alone times, with a few questions to help you dig deeper, that I found the most rewarding. Clips from movies like Braveheart, Gladiator, October Sky, Lord of the Rings, Good Will Hunting, The Kid, The Kingdom of Heaven–were so powerful. If you have ever read Wild At Heart or any other work of Eldredge, you would quickly discover that he uses movies as illustrates, concluding that not only are they modern parables, but they are telling our story and that is why we are drawn to them (he definitely has a point here). ![]() When the book was first released in 2001, I was blessed to read it (for what I’ve learned from Eldredge see here). We gathered in a room and watched John Eldredge and other Ransomed Heart team members deliver contents from his New York Times Bestseller Wild At Heart. For breakfast at 8am, we would cross a wooden bridge to get to our dining facility.Ĭontents. I shared a cabin room with another brother in the Lord. I thought it was an awesome location for the event: bonfires at night, canoeing and kayaking in the day, with the distraction of your North Carolina mosquitoes. We spent the time together at a camp site operated by a local United Methodist church in the area. Last Thursday night through midday Sunday (October 16-19), along with just over twenty men, I was blessed to be a part of John Eldredge’s Wild At Heart Boot Camp. ![]()
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