True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In
James Choung
Intervarsity Press, April 2008, 231 pp., $15, www.ivpress.com
There have been lots of books about presenting the gospel to unbelievers, doubters or even hostile skeptics. However, True Story seems to take a much more open and honest look at personal interaction, feeling and reason. It gives the reader permission to hear other points of view and the freedom to amend our beliefs because we’ve reasoned out for ourselves, as we struggle with tough questions confronting our faith, what the truth really looks like.
James Choung gives us a penetrating look into ourselves and our faulty reasoning. He challenges us to go beyond “Sunday School” answers and wrestle with pain, sorrow, death and other strong issues that seem to be potholes on our journey of faith. Readers will find True Story a refreshing conversation between two “real” people, and they may soon realize as they are reading that someone could have been writing a book about them and their struggle with faith in a nasty world.
