I am Not The King: A Personal Testimony of Growth in Jesus Christ - Softcover

Taylor, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 173507358X ISBN 13: 9781735073583

Publisher: Crux Publications, 2021

Synopsis

I Am Not the King is an intense spiritual memoir told in crisp, fresh language, a story full of dark moments that lead to a greater Light.

Through family dysfunction, a verbally abusive father, and religious legalism, the author enters adulthood angry, bitter, and confused. He oscillates between his self-imposed literary hermitage and bisexual escapades until an atheist college professor challenges him to think more deeply about the meaning of life. After a life-changing "upper room" experience, he spends the next twenty-eight years wrestling with God. I Am Not the King takes the reader on a wild journey involving broken relationships, workplace challenges, disappointments with other Christians, struggles with sin and temptation, and fear and doubt.

Allen Taylor shares with transparency and uncanny openness how he discovers he is not the king of his life. His story shows how anger and resentment turn to joy and peace in the arms of the real King.

More than a memoir, I Am Not the King includes discussion questions for group leaders after each chapter.

About this title

About the Author

Allen Taylor is founder and publisher of two publishing companies, creator and editor of the fictional Biblical Legends Anthology Series, and a published poet, essayist, and fiction writer. A former newspaper editor and award-winning journalist, he has ghostwritten several books for business professionals and makes his living as a freelance writer in the fintech, blockchain, and cryptocurrency niches.
 
After deciding to follow Jesus in the summer of 1992, he went in search of a church and began to study the Bible to draw his own conclusions about spiritual matters rather than rely on the teachings of his upbringing. A committed bachelor, he married at the age of 37 and immediately had a family of three daughters and a grandson. Being in a family made him realize how much he'd missed out on while being angry at his father. Thirty years after an encounter with Christ in his own personal "upper room," his faith is stronger than ever.
 
Allen has been small group leader, a Sunday school teacher, a worship leader, a lay reader, and an occasional preacher in various churches.
 
From April through Fall, he and his wife live in a van while traveling between Texas and Pennsylvania. During the winter months, they park in Texas and live off-grid in a bus converted into a small home.

From the Back Cover

I Am Not the King is an intense spiritual memoir told in crisp, fresh language, a story full of dark moments that lead to a greater Light.

Through family dysfunction, a verbally abusive father, and religious legalism, the author enters adulthood angry, bitter, and confused. He oscillates between his self-imposed literary hermitage and bisexual escapades until an atheist college professor challenges him to think more deeply about the meaning of life. After a life-changing "upper room" experience, he spends the next 28 years wrestling with God. I Am Not the King takes the reader on a wild journey involving broken relationships, workplace challenges, disappointments with other Christians, struggles with sin and temptation, and fear and doubt.

Allen Taylor shares with transparency and uncanny openness how he discovers he is not the king of his life. His story shows how anger and resentment turn to joy and peace in the arms of the real King.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crux Publications
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 173507358X
• ISBN 13: 9781735073583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82