When I got the opportunity to read ‘Wild Goose Chase’ before it hit the shelves –  I jumped at the opportunity. I had just met the author, Mark Batterson, at ICRS in Orlando Florida and was excited about His new book, ‘Wild Goose Chase’. I had wanted to read his last book “In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day” for some time, but had not had the chance to pick up the book yet. I can’t wait to read it now.

Wild Goose Chase is such an amazing book. I read it with pen in hand because there were so many passages in the book that spoke loudly into my life and I wanted to go back and read them.

“Wild Goose chases often start out as a single-cell desires. Something unexplainable and inexpressible gets conceived in your spirit. Something makes you mad or sad or glad. You get Wild Goose Bumps”.

This book explores all those ‘what ifs’ and ‘could have been’ and ‘if only’ – tosses them out the window and says imagine your life in God’s wild and crazy kingdom. To dream and live God’s dreams and chase what God has put in us to love.

“When we put our faith in Christ, we allow the one who changed the molecular structure of water and turned it into wine to redefine what is and is not possible. And that changes everything because “I can do everything through (Christ) who gives me strength.”

This book came to me at the right time – I am not sure what it means yet but I am diving into a wild goose chase. I hope you join me. As Mark Batterson puts it “Satan wants to turn you into a reactionary. Jesus came to recondition your spiritual reflexes with His grace. And when you’ve been reconditioned by His grace, you will become a revolutionary for His cause.”

Mark Batterson

Author Bio:
Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of Washington, DC’s National Community Church, widely recognized as one of America’s most innovative churches. NCC meets in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the city, as well as in a church-owned coffee house near Union Station. More than seventy percent of NCC’ers are single twentysomethings who live or work on Capitol Hill. Mark is the author of the best-selling In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and a widely read blogger (www.markbatterson.com). He lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, Lora, and their three children.

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