Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.
How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.
God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.