I'm not sure how much of this came through in Monday's edition of the New Man eMag, but I really enjoyed interviewing Andrew Farley, author of The Naked Gospel.  While I certainly didn't agree with everything Farley said, he offered up some honest and insightful thoughts about Christians today—stuff that many people might prefer to ignore or gloss over. (If you didn't get a chance to read the interview, you can check it out here.)

I was most interested in his account of the crisis of faith he had in college. At the time, he was obsessed with his performance as a Christian and spent hours every day reading the Bible and sharing his faith. He said he "would not have wished his faith on anyone" and that, if he had been honest, his sales pitch to nonbelievers would have been, "Would you like to be a Christian and be miserable like me?"

I work with teenage guys through a ministry at our church and a campground for young people. Part of my job is to present a positive role model to the young men, so I try to do everything I can with them—we play sports, share meals, study God's Word and do manual labor.

One sweltering day a couple of summers ago we were raking a large yard when one of the guys beside me said...