Below is a snippet of a Sermon by Jen's dad where he touches on an objection to John Eldredge's book Wild At Heart. The sermon as a whole is very good and not really about WAH, per se, but I think he makes a good point.

Every now and then Christians get caught up in things that sound good, but which aren't terribly Scriptural. We even sometimes put words in God's mouth that He has never spoken! One of the more illustrative of these non-Scriptures is, "God helps those who help themselves." I'm not sure how that expression got started, but it's definitely NOT in the Bible anywhere. But our human culture just has a hard time with the fact that God wants us to be dependent on Him, that we cannot work out our own salvation somehow. And because of that difficulty we have, we tend to add things to what God has said to give ourselves more of a role, more control, more predictability in our lives, or to justify our way of doing things when perhaps we aren't doing exactly what God says to do.

One way in which we can be deceived is to believe that somehow we can clean up our own act. After all, if I'm a Christian, surely I must learn to live a Christian life. And to live a Christian life must mean some sort of sacrifice. Ok, I'll sacrifice, but I'll sacrifice what I want to sacrifice, rather than take a chance and asking God what I am to sacrifice. After all, if I get totally dependent on God He might ask me to sacrifice something I really want, and I wouldn't want that to happen, right?

Another way we get caught up is to take a verse and use it in a way that God never intended. One very popular modern author has taken this verse: Genesis 2:8 (ESV) "And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed." and somehow built up an entire thesis that men are supposed to be wild because Adam was created outside of Eden and then led into the garden, somehow penned in by God and as a result domesticated. The author's premise is that Adam was not comfortable in the confinement of the Garden and that as his descendant all men need to let that wild side out. That is a natural reaction to the de-masculinization efforts of the feminist movement, but it's not really Biblically based. If you read that verse in context, you see that God first made the world, then on the sixth day made Adam, then created the Garden of Eden specifically for Adam and put him there.