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Honestly: Really Living What We Say We Believe [Paperback]

Johnnie Moore
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Book Description

September 1, 2011

Johnnie Moore, vice president and campus pastor of Liberty University, inspires readers with an enthusiastic challenge to live out fully what they say they believe as Christians.

In his uniquely confessional tone, Johnnie takes readers on a journey of belief from the hilltop home of the Dalai Lama to a mass grave of more than 250,000 people in Rwanda. He dares to address the doubts and challenges that have turned many well-intentioned Christians into hypocrites. Like a good pastor, Moore helps heal the wounds he opens, and he leaves his reader with one curious question, "What could happen if the world's Christians actually began to live what they say they believe?"


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"Johnnie Moore has given us an honest, believable book on what the Christian lifestyle is all about. I highly recommend it."
GARY CHAPMAN
author of The Five Love Languages

"I am convinced that Jack (my stepfather C.S.Lewis) would both enjoy and applaud this book... there are a few exceptional writers around who can still thrill me with what they have to say and the luminescent clarity of how they are saying it and Johnnie Moore has just joined that small band."
DOUGLAS GRESHAM
Stepson, C.S. Lewis, Executive Producer, The Chronicles of Narnia

"Honestly is provocative and compelling--a godsend to a generation that is searching for truth. I hope everyone I know can read this book."
JOSH MCDOWELL
author of Evidence That Demands a Verdict and More than a Carpenter

"I am breathing a huge sigh of relief for the next generation with leaders like Johnnie at the helm. This book will challenge all generations to get real in their walk with Christ."
GARY SMALLEY
author of The Blessing and The DNA of Relationships

"Johnnie Moore writes with a refreshing passion. His perspective on mission is first-rate, and his chapters on suffering and failure are reason alone to pick up this book."
LUIS PALAU
world evangelist

“Johnnie Moore encourages all followers of Christ to be real and to live with passion…His insights can help you take positive steps out of your own faith crisis.”
JAMES ROBISON
President, LIFE Outreach International

"Johnnie Moore writes with wisdom and insights far beyond his years. This new book gives us all a lot to think about and put into action. Start reading and achieving."
PAT WILLIAMS
senior vice president, Orlando Magic
author of Coach Wooden: The 7 Principles That Shaped His Life and Will Change Yours

"This is first-century Christianity in twenty-first-century narrative. Engaging. Interesting. Fun. Challenging. Biblical. This book gets it right!"
LEITH ANDERSON
president, National Association of Evangelicals
pastor, Wooddale Church

About the Author

Johnnie Moore is the vice president and campus pastor of Liberty University, the world's largest Christian university. He is a popular speaker, a professor of religion, a communication advisor to educators, preachers, and politicians. He is on the board of trustees of World Help and has traveled to more than 20 nations on missionary and humanitarian trips. He and his wife, Andrea, live in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (September 1, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736939466
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736939461
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Johnnie Moore is an author, pastor, advisor, professor of religion, and a vice president of Liberty University, the world's largest Christian university. He serves on the board of World Help, leads North America's largest weekly gathering of Christian young people, and has worked in more than two dozen nations, effecting change in some of the world's most desperate places. He and his wife, Andrea, reside in Virginia.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Another Over Spiritualized Story about Jesus May 24, 2012
Format:Paperback
I am in the process of reading this book, and I don't know that I will be finishing it.

There are several things about it that I find very troubling, and non-Biblical:
1. The examples of overcoming struggle (The Beatles, Lucile Ball, Ulysses S. Grant) given on page 114 are incredibly disappointing to me as a Christian, because these are models of worldly success - fame, military victory, financial wealth. However the models and founders of our faith did not experience wordly success - Paul died in prison, Peter was crucified, Thomas was beheaded. Following Christ and giving your life fully to the will of God as these great saints have, is no guarantee of "success".

2. This part makes me wonder if I have the same Bible as Johnnie. On page 130 he says: "the only thing Jesus asked us to do on his behalf--simply tell other people about him." When I read the Sermon on the Mount, I feel that Jesus is speaking to us, just the same as when he speaks the Great Commission.

I had hoped that your book would be a call to follow and emulate Jesus, but I have found it a book that over spiritualizes Jesus to the point of irrelevance to our every day lives. All we have to do is pray and read our Bible and hand out tracts. We don't have to make disciples, or even act like disciples.
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In short, I was disappointed. Moore would have never survived the outstanding gauntlet of scholarly review from the professors with whom he is employed (Liberty University). I shudder to think what Dr. Daniel Mitchell or Dr. Fred Smith would do with this book if it were presented for scholarly peer review. To be fair, it is somewhat experiential and testimonial, and therefore subjective; however, I am not sure his testimonies are really "qualified" to be considered as such. He cites trips he took on mission; visiting overseas, and speaking to people who saw horrible atrocities. Yet these experiences do not portray a man who has seen evil, rather someone who heard a story (albeit vivid) about it. Testimonials elevated to a bound and published book ought to have the credentials of firsthand experience rather than a STORY of a firsthand experience. His willingness to go on mission trips is commendable, but his mission trips are not the work of a missionary who has endured the horrors and difficulties of starvation, war, abuse, discrimination, etc.

Also, Moore's handling of Scripture is rather reckless at times. For example, he speaks about ensuring we feed our spiritual life so that we do not starve, citing Matthew 4:4 (74); however, this verse deals with Jesus' teaching about reliance on the whole Word of God, not just select aspects of it to fill (or distort) your need for the moment. The very verse deals with Satan distorting Scripture to fool and tempt Jesus. Ironically, Moore violates the very point Jesus tries to make in citing this verse this way! On page 88, he encourages believers to pray, and that is commendable; however, he suggests "...for a few minutes." Really? Perhaps for one who has totally turned from God, a few minutes would be reason to applaud, but for a believer who "gets it," perhaps a few HOURS might be a better goal. Moore boldly declares, "My testimony confirms what one man said: 'God never puts more on us than he puts in us'" (110), but Scripture clearly shows us God will indeed place more on our shoulders than we can handle - The purpose for this is to break us; to draw us closer to Him because we cannot do it ourselves. When we abide in Him, He alone brings us through the impossible times; and that is the point. Also, "his testimony" which encompasses his run from and subsequent return to God due to his parents divorcing, and his finite mission trips, are hardly commensurate with the testimonies that are manifest from both missionaries in the field, pastors leading churches, or the apostles in Scripture who died horrific deaths enduring real hardships. Enduring cancer, watching a fellow soldier's or police officer's life be ripped away, seeing one's son or daughter killed, suffering Third World prison for professing Jesus are examples perhaps more in line with the kind of hardship testimonies which might fill a book of examples. It is not to say we all cannot have hardships, and weighed against our own life experiences, they may be very significant, but Moore's experiences and the testimonies that manifest from them do not rise to the level of publication.

I am a huge proponent of evangelism; and Moore does well to encourage this. But he goes too far when he says, "...the only thing Jesus asked us to do on his behalf--simply to tell other people about him. This is the mission, the only mission, he has assigned to us" (130). But Jesus tells us to give everything to Him; to serve the poor and the sick, and through these acts of love, we will naturally tell others about Him through our witness (Matt 25:35-40, 19:21; Luke 12:33, 18:22). Merely talking to others is a lukewarm application of God's command and can only lead to a shallow Christian life or being deluded into thinking one is saved. Moore also suggests that Apostle Paul encouraged us to work hard and consistently by citing 1 Cor 10:31, but Paul was saying something quite different. Paul was declaring that everything we do should be with the intent to glorify God - not work hard for the hope that it might produce something good down the line. The whole point was that if we are not constantly in the pursuit of glorifying God, we are glorifying ourselves, and if we are doing that, we are worshiping false gods (idols). Paul amplifies this in 10:13-14.

While I appreciate Moore's zeal, he portrays a symptom of precisely what he sets out to correct - a shallow witness predicated by faulty exegesis and unremarkable experience as a Christian leader. There are so many Christian witnesses out there suffering every day who read by a candle light, suffer poor medical conditions, give up all their money, time, and possessions they have just to serve God. These men and women should write a book like this. I pray for Mr. Moore and that he grow into the godly man of whom he aspires. For now, perhaps Moore should spend his time on the journey before trying to write about it.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a gift to the church and the world September 1, 2011
Format:Paperback
I am honored to be the first to write a review here, because this book is anointed, touched by God, to speak a clear and needed word to those of us who claim to know the person of Jesus Christ. The essential message of "Honestly" is that what the world needs most is genuine, authentic Christians who really live like they believe what they say they believe. Simply put, hypocrisy is the biggest hurdle to reaching the world with the gospel. The author asks an important question, one that echos throughout each page..."What if we really lived what we said we believed?" This translates into areas of social justice, financial stewardship, integrity in relationships, and attitudes and actions towards the people we encounter each day. He weaves painful, personal stories from his own journey of faith into the chapters, helping the reader connect both intellectually and emotionally to the grand idea of living an authentic faith.

If you know someone who is on the outside of the Christian faith looking in...they would resonate with this book. It is raw without being harsh. It is honest without being self-righteous. It is pastoral without being sentimental. And the endorsers of this book alone comprise some of the most respected, faithful, humble and influential Christians in the evangelical world. RUN, don't walk, and get a copy immediately. You will not put it down until you have read every word and marked up every page.
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a must read book good for all religions and age groups
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