The Real Deal
Subtitle: (Following Jesus 101)
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2008
Place of publication: USA
Format: Bible based, Religious, Instuctive
Number of pages: 300
Description: In everyone’s life there comes a time when they go on a God search, which usually involves listening to “religious experts,” talking to those who’ve done their own God search and maybe checking out some churches. 

You watch CNN’s Larry King Live show and a supposed “religious expert” says one thing about what the Bible really says and the very next night a different “expert” states just the opposite. (Most people think, “O.K. What’s up with that?”) 
 
You read about Christians being put in Roman coliseums with lions because they refuse to denounce their King, missionaries in third world countries dying for their faith, study martyrs over the last twenty centuries being killed for “the cause” only to watch stories of TV preachers living lavish lifestyles of jets, limousines and mansions and say to yourself, “What’s wrong with this picture?”
 
In looking through the yellow pages for a local church—hoping to find a safe one—most wonder, “You’ve got to be kidding me. There’s thousands of ‘em?” “If everybody’s worshipping the same Lord, why are they so many denominations? Who’s right? Is anybody right? (All good questions to be asking)
 
So, with all the “religious experts and authorities” out there from one extreme to another, this book was written with a “Just the facts” approach without all the theological rhetoric or indoctrinated conclusions, so people can make up their own minds about salvation, heaven, hell, “sound doctrine,” angels, demons, end-times, prophecies, knowing the Lord vs. “church membership,” as well as, the character of God. 
 
“The Real Deal” is all about Jesus and what it means to “follow” Him. To millions, He’s the Savior of mankind. To millions of others—even after thousands of years of debate—He’s still very controversial, misquoted, misunderstood and often gets a negative or hostile reaction. 
 
So…just who is He? Is He really the “God-man” i.e. “The Real Deal” or just a good teacher or prophet?
 
The Biblical insights to all these relevant questions, especially in a crazy, confusing, 9/11, violent world, are in this no non-sense, straight ahead, “pull  no punches” examination of Christianity by Greg Haage, a successful professional musician and recording artist who’s now in ministry called to counsel and train others in “the faith” with one goal in mind: Getting people free from “religious works” or “denominational duties” and pointing them to the One who made the footprints in the sand.
Table of contents: title: Chapter One SURRENDERING AND PUSHING “RESET” (Making the big decision); title: Chapter Two REMODELING (Renewing the mind); title: Chapter Three MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Finding a “perfect” church); title: Chapter Four BURYING YOURSELF (Water baptism); title: Chapter Five “POWER—DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!” (The baptism with the Holy Spirit); title: Chapter Six THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND PROTECTION (The tithe); title: Chapter Seven THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT (Healing: questions, answers, controversies, mysteries); title: Chapter Eight ONCE SAVED—ALWAYS SAVED? (Eternal security vs. personal apostasy); title: Chapter Nine “THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH” (God’s design for passion and intimacy); title: Chapter Ten THE “WINE” QUESTION (Abstinence—Temperance—Excess); title: Chapter Eleven #1 MILITARY STRATEGY (Know your enemy); title: Chapter Twelve JESUS IS GOD, SPARKY! (The Deity of Christ); title: Chapter Thirteen WHOOSH KABOOM—WHERE’D THEY GO? (The Rapture and the Second Coming)