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What People Are Saying
“When I put down this book, I felt seen, heard, and not crazy. That's about the highest compliment I can give. Veneer asked me to look at the truth about myself—consumerism, celebrity-gawking, the temptation to give people a curated and manufactured Facebook-profile version of myself. And then it reminded me of a better way: deep relationships, intimacy, face-to-face connections, honesty even when it's ugly. It reminded me of how I want to live.”
— Shauna Niequist, author of Present Over Perfect
“Bold, intelligent, and convicting. Even as culture rewards our masks, Veneer urges us to rip them off. The life we ought to live is identified on these pages. Only read if you are ready to shed your façade.”
— Gabe Lyons, Q founder and author of The Next Christians
Beautifully imperfect.
Our lives are full of scars, quirks and insecurities we have learned to hide in favor of a more glamorous veneer we hope the world finds more acceptable. This is the modern tragedy. We have forgotten that like the stress-lines and fractures of antique wood, these imperfections in our lives are what make us beautiful.
Abundant living is more than a wall-post existence. Rich relationships are more than trends, status updates and group invitations. But neither are possible until we allow ourselves to be fully known, imperfections and all. Only then will we come to experience the life we are meant to live.
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The veneer of church.
As I reflect on the many veneers that exist in the church, it would be the height of hubris for me to not first look within and wrestle with the way these facades play out in my own life (Matthew 7:3-5). After all, the veneers we deal with are just more examples of a loving God working in and through sinners, like me.