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Bear Grylls says writing about Jesus was the ‘hardest thing’ he’s ever done: ‘It’s a battleground’

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Bear Grylls has dangled from helicopters over Arctic ice fields, crossed shark-infested waters and scaled the world’s highest peaks. But, according to the British adventurer, the “hardest and best thing” he’s ever done wasn’t surviving the wild, it was writing The Greatest Story Ever Told, a book about Jesus.

“This is the hardest and best thing I’ve ever done,” the 51-year-old author and TV host told The Christian Post. “I’d give up every Everest summit, every Emmy, every TV show I’ve done to have written this book.”

From “Man vs. Wild” to “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” Grylls, a former British Special Forces soldier and Everest mountaineer, has built a global audience by showing how courage and endurance can overcome even nature’s most brutal challenges.

But his greatest burden today, he told CP, is sharing with the world the hope that can only come from a relationship with Jesus.

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I'm getting tired of people trying to sell their book... If it was so amazing and could help so many people, post it for FREE as an e-book. Otherwise, I think you're trying to making money off of God's work and that doesn't sit right with me.
 
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I'm getting tired of people trying to sell their book... If it was so amazing and could help so many people, post it for FREE as an e-book. Otherwise, I think you're trying to making money off of God's work and that doesn't sit right with me.
Many people write books. I have no issue with Christians doing the same.
 
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I find it so encouraging when people write about their Christian faith, when they are famous for a different reason. It reaches audiences who wouldn't normally read a Christian book and makes a good present to buy them. (I was influenced by Sir Cliff Richard's conversion and subsequent books, for which I'm thankful.) I think that Bear Grylls can influence many people, especially those who think that Christianity is for sissies. This proves otherwise. If someone who has done the tough things that Bear has done, needs the Lord then so do they.
 
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I find it so encouraging when people write about their Christian faith, when they are famous for a different reason. It reaches audiences who wouldn't normally read a Christian book and makes a good present to buy them.. (I was influenced by Sir Cliff Richard's conversion and subsequent books, for which I'm thankful.) I think that Bear Grylls can influence many people, especially those who think that Christianity is for sissies. This proves otherwise. If someone who has done the tough things that Bear has done, needs the Lord then so do they.
Testimonies are planting seeds. There is nothing wrong with writing and selling a book. A worker is worth their wages. It takes money to reach a wide audience, etc. You make a very good point about his celebrity opening people up to reading his testimony.
 
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Testimonies are planting seeds. There is nothing wrong with writing and selling a book. A worker is worth their wages. It takes money to reach a wide audience, etc. You make a very good point about his celebrity opening people up to reading his testimony.
Thank you, and I agree about a worker being worthy of their wages.
 
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