True Identity by John C. Majors {a review for Bethany House}

True Identity is the kind of book you can safely give your teen. It is the kind of book that he will read and then come to you to talk about his ideas about love, marriage, and identity.

Teenagers today are engulfed in a sea of messaging. They get it in school (unless you homeschool them). They get it in movies and books, the news and most especially from each other. These days I think (and hope) children and their parents are realizing that they need to find their heroes in different places. Children need to model themselves against more wholesome figures than society has dished up for them. But that means that Christian parents and their teenagers are swimming upstream against the masses.

True identity is a book that will help you guide your son or daughter through the choices that he or she must make in life. As your teen works through the book, he will be guided through the process of deciding;

“Who am I, really? What is my true identity? Who an I at my very core?”

The author, John C. Majors, filled the book with many, many examples of teens and young adults making choices and directing their futures. He is frank and to-the-point in his discussions with a writing style that reads as if he is sitting down to chat with you. He does not shy away from delicate subjects – the topics you probably wish you did not need to discuss with your teen. Topics like gender identity, romance and dating, and wraps it all up in a perspective that will show your teen how to grab faith for himself and walk with God. And through it all, the author speaks with love and kindness.

Even if there are different ways you would discuss a given topic with your teen, letting them explore this book on their own and following with a series of conversations is enormously helpful. For myself, it was a perfect book for my teen to read. It breached subjects in ways I would not have thought of and it opened an avenue to having the discussions with my teen that will help him to mature and grow into a man.

I highly recommend this book to any Christian parent with a teenager.

A great book for teens in their walk with Christ. Helpful.