Between September and December of the year 2000, Sebastian James Preiss kept a very in-depth journal.Sebastian is a shore-boy. His father earns more in a month than most families earn in a year. For his eighteenth birthday, he got a brand new black BMW. His mother doesn't work - instead she plays tennis and alternates between various prescription drugs.However, you shouldn't hold all that against him. What you should hold against him is the fact that he's a self-serving, bitter misanthrope with little better to do than play games with people's minds. With an ego like Sebastian's... given enough time, and an interaction with precisely the wrong kind of girl, things are bound to come collapsing down.Consider this an anti-romance.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Your identity is a powerful and influential driver that governs outcomes in all parts of your life. It defines the limits of your success, finances, and achievements. It controls the quality of your emotions, relationships, and self-worth. #2 As a child, you were a blank canvas. You were impressionable, happy, and accepting. You had no reason to believe the external world was out to hurt you in any way. As you grew up, you began to confirm your identity. If someone said you weren’t a good student or a lousy athlete, that became a part of your identity. #3 Your identity is the force that governs your life and regulates your results. It determines your actions and results. If you don’t raise your identity, you will eventually lower it back down to a setting you don’t want, simply because you didn’t take charge and decide what identity you wanted. #4 The truth is that you can acquire all the talents, skills, and abilities you want, but until they align with your identity, you'll fall short of the goals you've set. This applies to your fitness identity, your financial identity, and every other part of your life.

The outrageous idea of this book is that God wants to use professors as professors to reach others, transform the academy, and meet the needs of the world. God is on a mission to redeem and restore this fallen world, and as members of one of the most influential institutions in society, Christian professors in the university play an important role in that mission. Becoming a missional professor will require a clear vision of God's heart for the lost as well as humankind's purpose and calling under the banner of Christ, an understanding of the significance of the university as a cultural shaping institution and mission field, and a desire for Christian wholeness in a fragmented world. This idea is outrageous because many Christian professors struggle to live missionally and need a clear vision of such a life as well as role models to lead the way. Many professors already living missional lives need encouragement to "excel still more" (1 Thess 4:10). We all need God's grace and mercy as we try to faithfully follow Christ within the university.