I’ve read Mark Batterson‘s other two books, In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day, and Wild Goose Chase, and I think both were better than Soulprint. It might just be that I’m a little tired of hearing about how to discover my divine destiny. It seems that ever since Rick Warren published The Purpose Driven Life, every pastor out there is preaching sermons and every Christian author is writing books about discovering who God made you to be and how to live accordingly.
It’s not that I disagree. I believe that each one of us is uniquely created by God to fulfill some purpose within His plan for the world. We are not to copy someone else, but are to learn who God made us to be and how we can live our lives within His Kingdom. Mark Batterson did a good job explaining this concept. And I really appreciated his explanation that there are different seasons in life, and we must be content with the season we are in (p. 25).
The strength of Soulprint is that each chapter is based on an event from the life of David. I like it when books do this, because even if I get bored with the book, I still feel like I’m learning something about Scripture. But other than this, I just couldn’t get into the book. It didn’t help that it is another book written by a popular and powerful megachurch pastor. I really struggle with most of these books since it seems that once the authors get to where they are, they forget the struggles and pain that all of us “lesser” people are dealing with. Most of the stories and illustrations in such books deal with how to handle crowds of adoring fans, multi-million dollar budgets, and rich CEOs who try to push your church around. That just doesn’t connect with where most of us are at.
So if you have never read any “find your divine destiny” books, you could start with this one. Otherwise, I recommend you just move on to actually living out who God has made you to be.
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FTC Disclaimer: I was given a free review copy of this book by Multnomah Press.
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