Anytime Mark Batterson writes something, I get it because I know it will be golden! Soul Print was pure gold. For me, it was one of those books I read and it happens to be  the perfect time in my life to read it.

I’ve been studying a lot on having a healthy self-image. Soul Print is all about finding out who you are in Christ. Finding your true value and worth. It helped me immensely. I’d recommend this book for anyone who is a student of themselves. Who wants to discover who they are in Christ. Mark walks us through the life of David to help us find ourselves in Christ. He did an incredible job in doing so.

My rule of thumb is if Batterson writes it, you need to read it. Get this book!

Some Highlights:

• There has never been and never will be anyone else like you.
• You aren’t good enough or gifted enough to get where God wants you to go. Not without His help.
• You were created to worship God in a way that no one else can.
• It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
• God doesn’t just set us free from who we were. He sets us free to become who we were meant to be.
• God’s primary concern is who you’re becoming.
• God sets us free from who we’re not so we can become who we are destined to become!
• Singles: Don’t focus on finding the right person, focus on becoming the right person.
• God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go!
• Most of our emotional problems are symptoms of one deep rooted spiritual problem: lack of trust in the sovereign God.
• You don’t really care about people until you don’t care what they think
• Most of us spend most of our lives trying to prove ourselves to people, when all we have to do is prove ourselves to God.

The book has plenty of more fantastic nuggets to dwell on! Get this book!

²⁷ “Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, at least send him to my father’s home. ²⁸ For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them so they don’t end up in this place of torment.  Luke 16:27-28

Watch this video by Penn Gillette, an atheist, as he talks about a time a man came up to him, gave him a Bible, and talked to him about God.

Do we really believe the message we preach? If we do, we should have a burning passion in us to tell everyone we know about it about God. It’s so easy to lose sight of the importance of evangelism! It’s so easy to pass the people we know don’t know Christ everyday and think nothing of it. I do it, you do it, we all do it.

Do we really believe this message we preach? And if we do, how bad do we have to hate someone to not tell them about God?

If you’ll be open and ask God to use you, you’ll start to see opportunities all around you everyday to share Christ with people. When the opportunity comes, go for it! You never know the impact a few words could have, even if they don’t react the way you’d want them to.

Finally, I just want to make note that the man who talked to Penn, did not freak him out. I see so many Christians that are so “spiritual” that they drive everyone they meet away from God. They make me not want to be a Christian! So please don’t be so “flaky” when you talk to people about God that you turn them away. I’d recommend watching Perry Noble‘s seminar on Evangelism, he’s got some great advice!

How bad do we have to hate people to not tell them about God?

Who are you going to tell?

Pastor Nathan played this video last weekend at Revolution. I  thought it was one of the most powerful testimonies I’ve ever heard. Take the time to watch it.  I promise you it will inspire you as well as challenge you.

You can check out more about Gianna on her website.

Gianna Jessen from LMF CAM on Vimeo.