TrueFaced: Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are [Hardcover]

Bill Thrall (Author), John Lynch (Author), Bruce McNicol (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2003

If we have to act like we've got it all together, then we aren't being real. Yet so often, we as Christians try to earn God's favor by putting on a show, hiding our true selves in the process.

But with God's grace, we don't need to live like that. In this book, the authors help us realize that the most powerful source of relational defeat is the attempt to hide our unresolved sin issues, keeping us immature and limiting our influence. An astonishing life begins as we start living as God sees us, standing with Him to work on our issues together.

Editorial Reviews

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A thought-provoking reexamination of the age-old grace vs. works issue with a fresh contemporary spin. -- Christian Retailing, October 6, 2003

This interesting, in-depth title...[will] interest Christian leaders and those caught in a performance trap. -- CBA Marketplace, September 2003

From the Back Cover

"The day of self-righteous, religious performing for cheap applause is coming to an end." TrueFaced draws a clear distinction between two very different underlying motives: my determination to please God or to trust Him. The resulting difference from these two starting points could not be more profound. One results in a striving that never feels it has done enough to please Him. The other results in a trust that experiences His full pleasure. Our motives as followers of Christ will either keep us in unresolved sin and immaturity or free us into God's astonishing dream for our life. [PUT IN BURST] Use with the TrueFaced Experience Guide and DVD. "In a world where duplicity is rampant, to live with 'unveiled faces' is a great gift and is the noble dream behind TrueFaced." --John Ortberg, author of Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them "TrueFaced describes the kind of life I aspire to live--a life motivated by trusting God and others around me." --Joseph Stowell, president, Moody Bible Institute "One of the best books on practical theology I have seen." --Dallas Willard professor; author of Renovation of the Heart

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Navpress Publishing Group (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576834468
• ISBN-13: 978-1576834466
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars serious stuff for the serious Christian, June 23, 2004

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"michellerosko" (Pyoungtaek, Kyungkido South Korea) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TrueFaced: Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are (Hardcover)

TrueFaced has become one of my favorite books. the truths found in this book have brought me higher in my christian life than anything else. these authors tell us not to try to take care of our sins, but realize that Jesus has already done this on the cross. we must live, if we've accepted Christ's sacrifice, as though nothing, not even our sin issues, are hindering us from God. only pride, not trusting what God says, can hinder us from this peace. the Bible tells us countless times to live in the new life, to put away the old man. this is what it is talking about. God wants us to trust in Him, not take care of all of our problems. that will come later, He merely wants us to TRUST Him. what did we do in our salvation except believe? nothing. and we must live that even after our justification --that we have no power over our sin, and only God can take care of them. yes, some things are hard to be understood and pursued in this book, but the truth mentioned above and the learning of it is more than worth the price.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Transforming Book, September 13, 2004

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Kerri Kenerson (Boulder, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TrueFaced: Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are (Hardcover)

TrueFaced is an excellent book in that it provides the reader with not only a concept to consider (the masks that we utilize to present certain, yet falsely construed individual personas) but also an attainable means of working towards a solution to the identified problem (through trusting grace, not works.) I found myself at peace after reading it, not because I was immediately transformed but because I knew that I could be and how.

Make sure not to put the book down if you don't find examples in the first half that you can relate to, the second half is much easier to identify with and well worth the read.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An awesome book on authenticity, October 10, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: TrueFaced: Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are (Hardcover)

TrueFaced is an absolutely incredible book that every Christian should read. So many of us hide behind masks, hoping that people will love and accept us more if we act a certain way. And unfortunately, in the Christian community, being honest about who you are and what you're struggling with isn't usually accepted. This is a great book about God's grace and extending grace to other people. It's also very readable and I thought the authors were very humorous. I'm going to recommend this book to a bunch of my friends.