What constitutes a "Christian life?" L. R. Abbott offers his own up as an example. Not that all lives lived following Christ are the same as his, but the truths which govern all Christian life do not differ. When the author has a major spiritual fall near the end of an otherwise "successful" Christian life in which he served as a father, church deacon, pastor and missionary, his soul goes into spiritual turmoil and he must find his way back to the experience of God's peace. The author's journey is reminiscent of the one made by Pilgrim, the main character in John Bunyan's immortal classic, Pilgrim's Progress. Like Pilgrim, the author meets people along his way to the Celestial City... a little boy up in a tree who believes Jesus is dead... people who mourn the loss of a loved one... a father who finds faith... Jewish landlords who ponder the mystery of God's ways... young people who live their lives on city streets... a religious man who finds a relationship with God three months before his own unexpected death... people of a foreign culture who hear God's good news for the first time... a boy who cries because he cannot see his mother, and men in prison - men like the author and his cellmate, Rusty, who like so many men have reached rock bottom. One Man's Journey does not share every detail about the author's life which the reader might desire, but all that it does share is true. It is the author's intention that his narrative lead readers into a healthy introspection as to where their own journey will or won't ultimately take them. Among other things, the book comes with an appendix that responds to the question, "Why do Christians fall?" It also has an end of book section entitled, "Share Your Journey," which has chapter by chapter questions for individual use and/or group discussion. L. R. Abbott gained a B.S. in Sociology with a minor in English, then attended the New School for Social Research in New York City in preparation for teaching in college. While in graduate school he became disillusioned with his studies, dropped out and became a practitioner of transcendental meditation before becoming a follower of Christ at the age of 23. His Biblical education is from classes attended or courses completed from Moody Bible Institute, Philadelphia College of the Bible, The Central Jersey Bible Institute and Columbia International University. He now resides in Columbia, SC.