Through his incredible honesty, he opens the door for you to follow suit. Are you ready to dig deep and let God shine through the genuine you? No more living just to please others. No more hiding. You can be who God called you to be. You can live for an audience of One.
Is the real you getting lost because the fake you is just so annoyingly impressive?
“Stepping onto the platform to preach that morning, I admitted to myself that I was not a pastor first, but a regular, scared, insecure, everyday guy whose life had been changed by Jesus. And if Jesus really loved me as I was (I knew He did), then why should I go on trying to be someone I wasn’t?”
Why do we fake it so much? Why do we spend so much time trying to please everyone else and make so little effort trying to please God? When Craig Groeschel asked himself those questions, he couldn’t come up with a good answer. So one day he decided to drop the act and start getting real. With that one choice, his life began to change in a big way. And yours can too. Craig’s passionate, funny, warts-and-all confessions—and the lessons he learned from them—will help you find your own path to authentic living and a deeper relationship with God (you know He’s on to you anyway!).
Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, one of the county’s first multi-campus churches. With thirty-seven weekly worship experiences at nine locations, LifeChurch.tv has continued to grow since its inception in 1996, and currently sees more than 17,000 people in attendance each week.
Armed with a passion to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ, Groeschel is known for his effective, cutting-edge teaching style replete with in-your-face honesty, accountability, and down-to-earth application. He graduated with a BA in marketing from Oklahoma University and went on to earn an MDiv from Phillips Theological Seminary. A captivating speaker whose messages touch thousands of people weekly, Groeschel's literary debut, Chazown, is an interactive book and DVD program named after the Hebrew word for “vision.”
Story behing the book
“For too many years my life had been a show—my lines well rehearsed and every performance polished. By college, I played so many different roles I lost track of the real me. I began to wonder if there was a real me. Exhausted from playing the parts, I finally took off the masks—and met a God who loved me unconditionally. Confessions of a Pastor reveals in graphic detail my inner struggles, questions, doubts, and fears—to inspire others to abandon lives of pretending—and to meet the authentic love of God like never before.” — Craig Groeschel
Pages: 224
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ISBN: 9781590527207 1590527208
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: MULTNOMAH - published 22/09/2006
Format: Hardback