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Its a seemingly crazy question. From priests to prisoners, nearly everyone thinks theyre morally better than average. Why change our minds? Why admit the truth about ourselves?
In his conversational, fun-to-read, and delightfully self-effacing style, Brant Hansen shows us why we should fight our drive to be self-righteous: its breathtakingly freeing. Whats more, just admitting that were profoundly biased toward ourselves and want desperately to preserve our rightness at all costs even helps us think better, make better decisions, be better listeners, and improve our relationships with God and others.
Hansen draws from biblical insight and the work of everyone from esteemed social psychologists to comedians to make his point: the sooner we get over ourselves, give up the Im good internal dialogue, and admit the truth, the sooner we can live a more lighthearted, fruitful, fun-loving life.
This book is about the freedom of childlike humility. After all, as Hansen writes, the humble life is truly your best one.
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Most of the time, the truth is hard for us to hear. But when it comes with the good-natured humor and crazy-life antics of Brant Hansen, it is Gods gift to our souls.
Kyle Idleman , senior pastor of Southeast Christian Church and author of Not a Fan and Don t Give Up
Warning to all humans: Brants wisdom is stealthy. He writes with such humor and insight, the points he drives home will feel like a ninja ambush. Brant has the rare ability to evoke simultaneous bouts of laughter and moans of conviction. Fresh, provocative, and highly entertaining.
Mike Donehey , lead singer of Tenth Avenue North and author of Finding God s Life for My Will
The Truth about Us reveals the tyranny of our false self and its heroic delusions. But theres good news. If we trust God enough to walk away from this, we can live in freedom with nothing to hide, nothing to prove, and nothing to lose. Brants message is entertaining, challenging, and potentially liberating. I needed to read this. (So do you.)
Benjamin C. Warf , MD , professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School
Humans need a stern talking-to from time to time, but those straight-up, unavoidable truths are easier to take when theyre tempered with humor, understanding, and well-lived-in love. In The Truth about Us , Brant Hansen does that expertly, as he does on his radio show and in all of his writings, because you know hes not asking us to consider truths about ourselves that he hasnt grappled with himself. And hes so funny that it feels like an intimate talk over fries with a friend, not a lecture.
Leslie Gray Streeter , columnist for the Palm Beach Post and author of Black Widow: A Sad- Funny Journey through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like Journey in the Title
The Truth about Us is another of Brants somewhat irreligious expositions on the meaning of the life that we (ought to) have in Jesus. Laced with his characteristically prophetic humor, he graciously gives his readers a much needed Pharisectomy. Thanks, BrantI needed that!
Alan Hirsch , founder of 100Movements, Forge, and Movement Leaders Collective and author of numerous books
The Truth about Us is the book for such a time as this. Who would have imagined that an examination of our sinful, narcissistic condition could be laugh-out-loud funny. But Brant Hansen offers just such a giftone hilarious, convicting, and effulgent with the gospel. I have never in my life come to the end of two hundred pages wanting to be more humble. I will be giving his book to all my friends for Christmas, not only because its the right thing to do but because they will thank me for it later.
Anne Kennedy , author of Nailed It: Sarcastic Devotionals for Angry and Worn - Out People
Brilliant and extremely timely. The Truth about Us is unflinching, hope-giving, and life-changing. I think its the most convincing account of human depravity Ive ever read. And its certainly funnier than Calvin.
Barry Cooper , author, speaker, and podcaster
2020 by Brant Hansen
Published by Baker Books
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakerbooks.com
Ebook edition created 2020
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
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ISBN 978-1-4934-2147-3
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB), copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org
Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked NLT are from the Holy Bible , New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
The author is represented by the literary agency of The Gates Group.
To Darin Hansen.
Thank you for always looking out
for your strange little brother.
It is better to live naked in truth than clothed in fantasy.
Brennan Manning
Cover
Endorsements
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
1. Dear Everybody
2. Wronger Than We Think
3. Your Very Own PR Firmand Why You Should Fire Them
4. Aristotle and My Garage Sale
5. Follow Your Heart: The Worst Advice Ever
6. The Flaw in Our Code
7. Mixed Motives
8. So Why Are We Like This?
9. Hide the Bud Light Towel: Adventures in Guilt
10. Lets Freak People Out
11. The Worst Wonderful Word
12. A Chainsaw at CVS
13. Seven Billion Italian Stallions
14. A Short Chapter about the Previous Chapter
15. How to Get Kicked Out of the Church of Satan
17. The Final Chapter: The One Where I Finally Mention Kermit
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Back Ads
Back Cover
Dear Everybody
An Introduction to Our Biggest Problem
All have turned away, all have become corrupt;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.
Psalm 14:3
Dear Everybody,
We have a serious problem:
All of us think were good people.
But Jesus says were not.
Sincerely,
Brant P. Hansen
PS: The rest of this book is the PS.
I F YOU THINK I M WRONG about how we think were good peopleI offer this challenge: Go ahead and ask someone. Seriously, if youre reading this at a coffee shop, ask the stranger sitting at the next table, So, are you a good person? Would you say youre more moral than the average person?
Given my studies in this area, I can predict their response with 98 percent confidence, and its Im calling the police. But while the authorities are being dispatched, try to get a serious answer. If they give you their honest take, youll hear something like, Why, yes, I do think Im more moral than the average person.
This is predictable because social scientists have asked these questions for decades, and the result is the same: We all think were more moral than average. Its remarkable how good we are. Just ask us, and well tell you about it.
We can fool ourselves about a lot of things. (For instance, I persist in believing Ill be able to eventually dunk a basketball, despite the fact that my vertical jump is decreasing and Im actually getting shorter.) But of all the things we delude ourselves about, our moral goodness is our biggest self-deception.
Researchers at the University of London concluded that a substantial majority of individuals believe themselves to be morally superior to the average person and that this illusion of ours is uniquely strong and prevalent. They write, Most people strongly believe they are just, virtuous, and moral; yet regard the average person as distinctly less so. And among their study participants, virtually all individuals irrationally inflated their moral qualities, and the absolute and relative magnitude of this irrationality was greater than that in the other domains of positive self-evaluation.
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