The number one criticism leveled against people of faith is that we are hypocritical, that we knowingly nourish a substantive separation between the life we project and the life we practice. God hates hypocrisy too. He detests the gap in our lives between what we know to be true and how we’re living it. Today we’re going after authenticity, a quality so illusive you don’t get there by accident—you have to choose it. Pastor James urges us to close the gap between who we appear to be and who we are. It’s out with phoniness and in with more genuine, heartfelt realness.