Eldredge frames the book around his outdoor experiences and appealing anecdotes about his family, sprinkling the text with touches of humor and overlying everything with heartfelt passion. Although the book succeeds best in its slant toward a male audience, it also strives to help women understand the implications of authentic masculinity in their relationships with men. He urges men to take time out and come to grips with the "secret longings" of their hearts. Men often seek validation in venues such as work, or in the conquest of women, Eldredge observes. He challenges Christian men to return to authentic masculinity without resorting to a "macho man" mentality. Eldredge throws down the gauntlet-men are bored they fear risk, they refuse to pay attention to their deepest desires. 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, writes bestselling author John Eldredge in Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventure.
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