Becky Pippert, in Out of the Saltshaker , tells of conversion of an atheist friend. After she had become a Christian, this friend told Becky it was her open, genuine life that had drawn her to Christ. “All my life I used to think, ‘How arrogant for someone to call himself a Christian’ … But then I got to know you — and Becky, you are far from perfect, yet you call yourself a Christian. So my first shock was to discover you ‘blow it’ like I do. But the biggest shock was that you admitted it, where I couldn’t. Suddenly I saw that being a Christian didn’t mean never failing, but admitting when you’ve failed” (p. 29). Warns of presenting so “polished a product” to people. (cf. 2 Cor. 4:7)