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Schedule
As we move through this class, you'll probably notice that we don't follow specifically what's in the book. That places a lot of responsibility on you to read the assigned chapters, but also remember that this is your journey. Read ahead if you like. And go through the Field Manual with your reading at your own pace. For the purposes of the class, here is how we will try to break this up:

September 10: Chapter 1; Introduction; The Mission Is A Man
September 17: Chapter 2; The Wild One Whose Image We Bear
September 24: Chapter 3; The Poser; The Question That Haunts Every Man
October 01: Chapter 4; The Wound
October 08: Chapter 5; The Battle for a Man's Heart
October 10-12: Wild at Heart Retreat^*
October 15: Chapter 6; The Father's Voice
October 22: Chapter 7; Healing the Wound
October 29: Chapters 8 & 9; A Battle to Fight
November 05: Chapter 10; A Beauty to Rescue
November 12: Chapter 11; An Adventure to Live
November 19: Chapter 12; Writing the Next Chapter; Final Class

^*The retreat will be a supplement to the class, but can also stand on its own as we will cover everything more in-depth. Take the time to invite other men to this retreat!

Email Rob Touchstone or Brian Holaway for more information about this class.

Wild at Heart Retreat
There will also be a Friday-Sunday Wild at Heart Retreat October 10-12. All men, especially those that attend this class, are greatly encouraged to attend. You don't want to miss this retreat! Details coming soon.

Resources
: A Daily Prayer for Freedom
: Tusculum Forums: Wild at Heart Discussion (must have free username and private forum access)
: Quotes (used at beginning of class)
: Ransomed Heart Ministries

From Wild at Heart
A Battle to fight. An Adventure to live. A Beauty to rescue. This is what a man longs for; this is what makes him come alive. Look at the films men love. For that matter, look at the dreams of little boys, the games they play. There is something fierce, passionate, wild in the heart of every man.

That is how he bears the image of God. And the reason that most men "live lives of quiet desperation" (Thoreau) is because men have been told that the reason God put them on earth is to be a good boy. To be nice.

God designed men to be dangerous. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires— aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a nice guy. It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death. In this provocative book, Eldredge gives women a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be--dangerous, passionate, alive, and free.

Now in all your boyhood dreams growing up, did you ever dream of becoming a nice guy? Ladies, was the Prince of your dreams dashing . . . or merely nice? Eldredge believes that this dedication to niceness is the reason there are so many tired and lonely women, so many fatherless children, and so few men around. He writes, "We've taken away the dreams of a man's heart and told him to play the man. As C.S. Lewis said, 'We castrate the gelding and bid him be fruitful."

This is a message about the recovery and release of a man's heart, his passions, which he has been given by God.

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