For For teenagers and students learning who they are before God, and for youth leaders; adults should read Abba's Child itself.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
1 of 5marginal
Difficulty
0 of 5easy
Abba's Child adapted for teenagers with youth worker Jim Hancock: grace as freedom to stop pretending.
How it proceeds
Philosophic0 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential4 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical0 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You was published by NavPress in 2003 (182 pages), written by Manning with Jim Hancock, a youth worker and writer for adolescents. It adapts Abba's Child (1994) for teenagers and students: the impostor self that performs for approval, and the freedom of grace to be who one really is before God. NavPress reissued it in 2014.