Joseph Campbell, the creator of the hero’s journey, did a lot of research on ancient mythology. He discovered that many heroes travel the same paths to becoming a hero. Campbell decided that heroes come across many challenges that are put into stages and in those stages the hero grows closer to the reward at the end. I am definitely not a hero, but my journey of finding Christ and giving my life to him has absolutely made me into a better person overall. As I look at my journey of finding Christ, I see that it has many similarities to Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. My journey of coming to know Christ is much like Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey because I left from my ordinary world to go into the special world, I refused to take on my adventure, and I found out my ordeal, and what would happen if I didn’t surrender my life to Christ.
My journey of coming to know Christ is like the hero’s journey because I left from my ordinary world to go into a new special world. My ordinary world has been just like most normal teenagers. I grew up in a baptist church, but I lived in sin and didn’t care that I was doing the wrong things, I lived for myself instead of Jesus, and I didn’t care what people said about my decisions in life. The special world is a life where …show more content…
I was called to adventure when an opportunity came up for me to go to a Christian camp called “Consumed”. I refused to take on that adventure just like one of the steps in Campbell's the Hero’s Journey. I refused this call by telling my parents that the trip was too expensive and that I didn’t want to travel without them because I would miss them too much. I also didn’t care very much about going to Consumed because I didn’t want to hear about Jesus all week. I refused to take my call to adventure to coming to know Christ just like one of the steps in the Hero’s
My journey of coming to know Christ is like the hero’s journey because I left from my ordinary world to go into a new special world. My ordinary world has been just like most normal teenagers. I grew up in a baptist church, but I lived in sin and didn’t care that I was doing the wrong things, I lived for myself instead of Jesus, and I didn’t care what people said about my decisions in life. The special world is a life where …show more content…
I was called to adventure when an opportunity came up for me to go to a Christian camp called “Consumed”. I refused to take on that adventure just like one of the steps in Campbell's the Hero’s Journey. I refused this call by telling my parents that the trip was too expensive and that I didn’t want to travel without them because I would miss them too much. I also didn’t care very much about going to Consumed because I didn’t want to hear about Jesus all week. I refused to take my call to adventure to coming to know Christ just like one of the steps in the Hero’s