Wild Goose Chase (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Peter: Add a description of this character.
• Paul
• Jonathan
• Nehemiah
• Adam
• Saul
• Abraham
• Sarah
• David
• Isaac
• James
• John
• Lora
• Parker
• Muir
• Mark
• Simon

Quotes edit see section history

• “I wonder if churches do to people what zoos do to animals.”

• “Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.”

• “You cannot simultaneously live faith and be bored. Faith and boredom are antithetical.”

• “As we age, many of us stop believing and start assuming.”

• “Sometimes our plans have to fail in order for God's plans to succeed.”

• “God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence. That way He gets all the credit.”

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• When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?

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• I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone. Most people die long before that. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for. Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living.

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• When it comes to doing the will of God, God-ordained passions are far more important than any human qualification we can bring to the table. In fact, God often uses us at our point of greatest incompetence. That way He gets all the credit.

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• Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

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• Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.

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• The Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard believed that boredom is the root of all evil. I second the notion. Boredom isn't just boring; boredom is wrong. You cannot simultaneously live by faith and be bored. Faith and boredom are antithetical.

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• We have a primal longing to be uncaged. And the cage opens when we recognize that Jesus didn't die on the cross to keep us safe. Jesus died to make us dangerous.

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• I wonder if churches do to people what zoos do to animals. I love the church. I bleed the church. And I'm not saying that the way the church cages people is intentional. In fact, it may be well intentioned. But too often we take people out of their natural habitat and try to tame them in the name of Christ. We try to remove the risk. We try to remove the danger. We try to remove the struggle. And what we end up with is a caged Christian.

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• The first cage is the cage of responsibility. Over the course of our lifetime, God-ordained passions tend to get buried beneath day-today responsibilities. Less important responsibilities displace more important ones. And our responsibilities become spiritual excuses that keep us from the adventure God has destined for us. Without even knowing it, we begin to practice what I call irresponsible responsibility. The Wild Goose chase begins when we come to terms with our greatest responsibility: pursuing the passions God has put in our heart.

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• Faith is not mindless ignorance; it simply refuses to limit God to the logical constraints of the left brain. Think of it this way. Logic questions God. Faith questions assumptions. And at the end of the day, faith is trusting God more than you trust your own assumptions.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Jerusalem
• Chicago
• Washington Dc
• India
• Capitol Hill
• Malta
• Babylon
• Union Station
• Calcutta
• Israel

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Mark Batterson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 248.4

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living