My friend Mark and I have been reading through Tim Keller's The Reason For God. I'm a Jesus-believer. He's searching. He found Keller's comments on adventure somewhat strange. Mark wrote, 

I was doing some more reading last night. I found it odd that [Keller] wrote in a journal that living a life for adventure is narcissistic and displays idolatry.
I've slept since then so i can't recall the specifics but it didn't sit well with me. I like adventure in the spirit of experiencing as much as possible and not
Settling for boring stagnant life, which isn't what he was suggesting we do, but I don't think its narcissistic. God created this wonderful place so let's
experience everything in it. Maybe i took it out of context.

I wrote back, "Yeah i hear what you're saying. I'll have to read that part...my take is that adventure is a gift from God so we are to enjoy life to its fullest as a gift, not as our God. In other words, if we look to adventure to satisfy us its like giving your friend a gift and he forgets about you because he's so amazed by the gift. But the gift was supposed to strengthen your relationship with him, not weaken it. I think God wants us to look for meaning and purpose and satisfaction in Him and then the gift of adventure is something we enjoy to his glory...tell me if that makes no sense."

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