Review: The Lifestyle of a Prophet James W. Goll Chosen Books 2001, 2013 Lifestyle of a Prophet? Isn’t that like eating grasshoppers while dressed in a camel hair robe? Or hiding out in the desert so a king won’t kill you? Not in this book, and there isn’t anything even close to those examples mentioned. So what has this author written about? For those of us from a non-charismatic or Pentecostal tradition the title is at least peculiar. So let’s stretch a little and see what the other side of the aisle is talking about here. That’s where I started with this book. A prophet in Goll’s tradition speaks a word of wisdom or discernment that concerns those around him. He mentions that dreams may reveal the information or revelation as well. In either case, the prophet senses that he speaks the truth of God. So to avoid some of the less useful forms of that have been known to occur Goll has pe...