True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In (Review)
I'm not much for gimmicks when it comes to books on theological matters. It's not that I take myself too seriously---God knows I don't---it's just that when authors try to get cute and warm the hearts of the reader to deep theological schtuff by making it all seem warm and fuzzy I tend to throw up in my mouth just a little. That's why when a friend recommended that I read James Choung's book on Evangelism entitled True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In , I kind of balked. You see, I read the synopsis and when I discovered that the lion's share of the book was a fictional account of how a young man questioned his faith, re-discovered it and re-learned how to share it more effectively, I began to taste bile. But a strange thing happened as I began to read True Story: I liked it. And then I moved from merely liking it to really liking it. Choung, a divisional director of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship , asserts that the "gospel...