Let’s Tell the Truth
By Greg Laurie
“So stop telling lies. Let us tell our neighbors the truth, for we are all parts of the same body.”
—Ephesians 4:25
In 1991, James Patterson and Peter Kim published a book called The Day America Told the Truth. In their book, they came to the following conclusion: “Americans lie. They lie more than we had ever thought possible. . . . But they told us the truth about how much they lie.”
The authors went on to point out that Americans lie to just about everyone, and the better we know someone, the more likely we are to have told them a serious lie.
Lying is widespread in our culture today. We don’t even admit it when we lie. In fact, when public figures tell bald-faced lies and get caught, they claim they misspoke. No one wants to come out and say what is true anymore.
