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Bad Christian: On Being Challenged

Franz Kafka once said the following:

I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? . . . A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Kafka is right.

I’d add that if you aren’t being challenged, then you aren’t growing.

This is one of the reasons why I write, speak, and have a podcast.

I seek to challenge others with those things which have challenged me in my own walk.

That’s the subject of today’s podcast episode.

In this episode, the boys over at Bad Christian interviewed me and my co-author Mary Demuth.

During the interview, I give a behind-the-scenes look at why I wrote Pagan Christianity with George Barna in 2008. (The real reason is because insanity runs in my family!) 🙂

We talk about spiritual warfare, the difference between a challenge and an attack, and why we wrote The Day I Met Jesus and how it’s challenging many Christians today.

Listen to the episode HERE.

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Frank Viola is a best-selling author, blogger, speaker, and consultant to authors and writers. His mission is to help serious followers of Jesus know their Lord more deeply so they can experience real transformation and make a lasting impact. To learn more about Frank and his work, go to 20 Years of Projects. To invite Frank to speak at your event, go to his Speaking Page. Due to a new problem with persistent spam that we haven’t figured out how to control, comments are closed for the present time. To contact Frank, use the “Contact” page in the top menu.

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Frank is a bestselling author, speaker, podcaster, and blogger. He helps serious followers of Jesus know their Lord more deeply so they can experience real transformation and make a lasting impact. His blog – frankviola.org – is regularly ranked in the top 5 of all Christian blogs on the Web and his podcast – Christ is All – has ranked #1 in Canada and #2 in the USA on Apple Podcasts. He and his conversation partners also host The Insurgence Podcast. Frank’s books have sold over 600,000 copies and they’ve been translated into many languages.

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