![]() González, who has a $2 million price on his head, not only encourages his trainees to read Eldredge's work, but has reportedly paid teachers to peddle the words of Wild at Heart around the countryside.Īlthough the New Yorker piece only devotes a line or two to Eldredge, that was enough to bring increased attention to the heart of Ransomed Heart Ministries. ![]() The book rates four mentions in an internal Mexican justice-department memo produced last year, describing La Familia's recruitment campaign for converts who'd like to deliver "la divina justice," or divine justice, which is how Nazario Moreno González, the gang's leader who's also known as El Chayo and El Más Loco, describes the murderous tactics with which La Familia has terrorized Michoacán. La Familia has an unusual source of inspiration for its own great mission: Wild at Heart, which is required reading (in Spanish translation) at the cartel's training camps. ![]() So says John Eldredge, whose own great mission started after he moved to Colorado in 1991 to join the staff at Focus on the Family, got a degree in counseling at Colorado Christian University launched Ransomed Heart Ministries, "a fellowship devoted to helping people discover the heart of God" in 2000 then proceeded to write several books, including 2001's Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul, which has sold 2.5 million copies.Īt least a few of those copies made their way into the hands of La Familia Michoacana, the newest, most violent of the Mexican drug cartels, which announced its presence in September 2006 by rolling five severed heads onto a nightclub dance floor in Uruapan, Michoacán, and "whose depradations pervade the life of the region," writes William Finnegan in his May 31 "Letter From Mexico" in the New Yorker. That is why God created you - to be his intimate ally, to join him in the Great Battle." ![]() ![]() He must have a cause to which he is devoted even unto death, for this is written into the fabric of his being. A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family. ![]()
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