As Gary has rightly said, Chapter 1 is short and straight to the point, no bad thing i reckon! The terms ‘adultolescence’ and ‘Tinkerers’ get used from the outset to describe young Christians who put of the responsibility off adulthood until their 30′s or 40′s! I got married in my 30th year, we have no kids and i do tend to jump about with my commitment to ‘things’ with some questioning of what God wants. I say ‘some’ because i am all too familiar with those people who ‘tinker’ an awful lot more than i do or could, i get irritated by this but i have done it & i relate to it. But, is it true for some of us that ‘our search for God’s will has become an accomplice in the postponement of growing up’? I totally agree that this is true for many and feel like i drifted dangerously towards this in my twenties. In chapter 1, i was most struck by one line. ‘As Christian young people, we are less fruitful and less faithful than we ought to be.’ Less fruitful as we chase after the wind and less faithful as a consequence of chasing it! Could it be that the ‘plan for our lives’ that many chase after is a detour that satan takes us on, in the hope we will get lost? In Gary’s post he asks this, “Are we putting off adulthood? And are we covering up our laziness, indecisiveness & unreliability etc by claiming that we are searching for God’s will?” Just because i am married, have a house, a job etc etc does not mean i am exempt from letting this challenge me. We can still be lazy, indecisive & unreliable after having made some adult decisions in life. I guess this is the challenge i see from the first Chapter, for me anyway.

So, if you are reading the book you can also read and interact with Gary’s thoughts here. He is ‘our leader’ in this little book reading experiment. If you blog about it, leave some of use a comment & link so we can try and include everyone in the conversation. You can also buy the book here

update: John Fitzsimmons has joined in the conversation about the book, read his first post here