Put Your Dream To The Test (part 1)
Posted By Aaron Marcelli on January 30, 2010
The first book I chose to read in 2010 was John Maxwell’s Put Your Dream To The Test. Of course, I’m all about having dreams, living with goals, making plans, and believing in the passions of your young aspirations rather than just letting them fade away. That’s why this book title appealed to me. Just several pages in, I knew I had made a good choice.
Now, it doesn’t take much to get me going these days as far as getting excited about my dream. Just driving through the city of Chattanooga or someone in a crowd whispering a phrase that rhymes with “church planting” will make me want to run circles or loudly regurgitate all I know about starting a church. Working through this book served as even additional motivation as well as a honing guide for laying out my dream.
The book was written (or at least I read it) with a very seasoned, mentoring tone. Each chapter served as a question challenging the reader to gauge the reality, validity, and authenticity of one’s personal dream. There was an incredible balance of motivating the reader to pursue his dreams, while also strongly urging them to be honest about the possibility of such a dream coming true. Never was there a section that could be interpreted as belittling a dream or discouraging someone from thinking big. Maxwell was even careful to say that it is ok if someone cannot clearly articulate their dream but that they should be working on that as the next step. The importance of involving others was also stressed because anything that is greater than one person requires more than one person.
The book connected with me so deeply where I am right now in the preparation stage of pursuing my dream, I have decided to review the book and write a series of posts that will include book excerpts and my thoughts as I went through the material. I would love to lead a book study on the volume, but since I’m not, we will do a cyber one on here for several days. Feel free to follow along!
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