I generally really like whatever content Mark Battereson puts out into the world, whether it’s books or blog posts or sermons. His latest feels like maybe he was trying to hard to push something out…? I don’t know…for me it just didn’t have the same feel as his other works.
Soulprint is all about finding your unique identity in God. At the beginning he says that we make mistakes in trying to be other people, and we may never actually find out what we were created to do.
I love the main point of the book… the message is absolutely necessary. It’s just so chock-full of semi-unique cliches that there are times that I can’t handle reading it. And I feel bad saying that because I really like Batterson, but that’s just my own personal reading style.
He also makes a point about having character and integrity..something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. He basically says that to truly understand who you are in Jesus, you first need to have the character of someone who follows Jesus. Building integrity is the first thing on the list of finding your divine calling.
Great message, not-so-great writing — in my humble opinion.