Too
often people take a word like "authenticity" and they secularize it
to mean, "I'm going to let you know exactly what I feel," thinking
that that is going to result in intimacy and a release from guilt. What may in
fact be happening is that you are demanding that the other person now deal with
your feelings the way you want him or her to. If the other person doesn't do
that, then you go into hiding convinced that nobody will ever deal with how you
really feel; so why bother caring? The point is that you are not facing the
real issue. Authenticity demands that you expose yourself not for the purpose
of getting a person to respond to you in the way that you want, but exposing
yourself so you can respond to what God wants.
-- Dr. Larry Crabb
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