Bad Christian: On Being Challenged

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Bad Christian: On Being Challenged

Posted: 04 Jun 2015 04:04 AM PDT

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Frank Kafka once said the following:

I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? . . . A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Kafka is right.
I’d add that if you aren’t being challenged, then you aren’t growing.
This is one of the reasons why I write, speak, and have a podcast.
I seek to challenge others with those things which have challenged me in my own walk.
That’s the subject of today’s podcast episode.
In this episode, the boys over at Bad Christian interviewed me and my co-author Mary Demuth.
During the interview, I give a behind-the-scenes look at why I wrote Pagan Christianity with George Barna in 2008. (The real reason is because insanity runs in my family!)
We talk about spiritual warfare, the difference between a challenge and an attack, and why we wrote The Day I Met Jesus and how it’s challenging many Christians today.
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