Wild Goose Chase
I was having a hard time getting to sleep tonight so I grabbed the new book from Mark Batterson called Wild Goose Chase. Mark is the pastor at National Community Church in Washington DC. Mark has had a huge impact on me and on us at Elmwood. It was through a conversation I had with Mark that gave me the idea and the contact person to pursue the launching of Elmwood at the Regal Theater. We have visited him and the NCC crew several times – he has opened up for our staff to sit in on their staff meetings and they were the ones that helped us figure out how to do church in a theater since they have been meeting in theaters for over ten years now! WOW!
Mark wrote a great book called In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day last year and it was a huge blessing and is still having an impact today. (I would definitely get it if you have not yet!) So I was pumped to hear he was writing again. I got the book last week – it is being released nationally today so I thought I would help a brother out (we have ordered a case of 24 to sell at the resource table so you can be some of the first to get it!) and post a review.
I read the first chapter and in fact we used the first chapter as part of our GroupLife Leadership Retreat this past weekend anywho – getting back to not being able to fall asleep so I thought I would read it and then hopefully fall asleep – WRONG! It’s really late or I should say really early Tuesday morning now and I am fired up. Everybody who calls Elmwood home (and anybody else for that matter) needs to read this book. What a great challenge to those who have answered the call to follow Jesus Christ. It is especially timely for us at Elmwood in light of our Love Revolution Campaign and all that we have been talking ab
out these past 7 weeks and where we are going in the months ahead. Of course God’s Word is our foundation that we build everything on and from – but I think the theme of this book could be our mantra and guide as we pursue the mission of God to reach every man woman and child – “Chase the Goose!”
Get the book – quick read it and see what Chase the Goose is all about!
