Honest to God? [antikvár]

Introduction .American novelist William Faulkner toiled for years as an unknown, unrespected writer in the rural Mississippi town of Oxford before he gained recognition. When he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, his acclaim grew. Approached later about the literary people and authors he associated with, Faulkner shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know any literary people. "The people I know are other farmers and horse people and hunters, and we talk about horses and dogs and guns and what to do about this hay crop or this cotton crop, not about literature." Faulkner befriended real people. Unpretentious people. People honest about their life and living. He chose to surround himself with those who populated his stories and actually lived in his intensely human fiction, rather than those who simply talked about the South, or wrote about it. I've often spent time with people who simply talked or wrote about Christianity. I'd much rather spend time with people who actually live it. That's what this book is about—actually living Christianity. Being authentic Christians. Too often we Christians settle for inauthentic Christianity. We experience only partially the changes God can produce in our lives, and go through the motions that keep our faith lukewarm at best and make our Christian lifestyle mostly a vicarious experience. We are as far from the authentic Christian experience as the would-be literary admirers were from Faulkner's South. We have just come through a decade in which the evangelical