I just finished reading “The Barbarian Way”, by Erwin McManus, and I’m convinced of this one defining fact about who God is shaping me to be:

I am a barbarian prophet. I pursue Jesus with reckless passion, uncivilized and unchurched, and I say and do things that are strange and disturbing to some, but He commands me to “let those hear who have ears to hear.”

I am on a barbarian mission with a barbarian tribe led by a reckless God to live a mysterious and untamed faith among peoples beyond the culture of civilized church folk, too civilized to understand my journey or my destination. To my fellow barbarian adventurers, though, I say this: I weep with joy at the hope of meeting you, let us partake together of this lifetime of risk and adventure for our Holy King!