My Beautiful Idol offers raw honesty through the power of story to deal with today's real-life struggle in a "me-first" culture.
Author Pete Gall is on a quest to be successful-in a lucrative job at an advertising agency, in ministry work, even in his relationships. And in a futile attempt to make himself feel loved and admired, he has turned these things into idols he can control and keep in his pocket. He can pull them out when he feels vulnerable and defenseless and them hide them when things are going well. But the idols the author created keep crashing-even when he turns to his own Christian faith.
In a creative narrative style rooted in raw honesty, My Beautiful Idol invites readers to identify with the author's struggles as he seeks God as well as hides from him. This is not about reducing complex matters to simplistic formulas. Through sublime and wretched, ego-building and humbling, humorous and painful experiences, the author acknowledges the messiness of life, the importance of validating the truth, and the unscripted nature of experiencing a God who is involved in all of life.
