Meet the beautiful outlaw

On Oct. 12, John Eldredge releases his new book, "Beautiful Outlaw:  Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus."

It sounds like in his new book, Eldredge is focusing on aspects of Jesus that perhaps we have not considered -- his "beautiful, scandalous, utterly compelling personality."

Eldredge recently shared in a letter how Jesus spoke to him while writing "Beautiful Outlaw":

Back in January, when I was writing the book, Jesus spoke to me Isaiah 63:4: 'For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redemption has come.' I sensed that at this time, in this context, the 'year of his redemption' means the redeeming of how people see Jesus and what they know him to be like. Wouldn't that be awesome!!??

In "Beautiful Outlaw," Eldredge looks at Jesus' humanity, playfulness, extravagant generosity, fierce intention, cunning and humility. I'm looking forward to reading it and getting closer to Jesus.