As far as the writers in the Bible go, . . . I like Paul the best because he said the hard stuff . . and you get to thinking he was pretty severe, and all of a sudden he starts getting vulnerable as though he is feeling lonely, needing to share his personal stuff with somebody. . . .

If a writer is going to sit down with a big important voice and try to get me motivated about something, I pretty much don't want to read anymore because it makes me feel tired, as though life were just about getting a lot of things done. Paul never did this. He was terribly personal.

Don Miller, Searching for God Knows What