No life is messier than one in ministry

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.