The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You John Ortberg (Zondervan 2010) I met John Ortberg in the gym at the Town & Country Convention Center in San Diego. He was speaking later at the National Pastor's Convention. I wasn't. But we were both pumping iron and we are both Presbyterian. That gave me enough juice to just go ahead and awkwardly approach him while he wiped his best-selling author brow and ask (already knowing) "Are you John Ortberg?" To John's credit, he was unbelievably gracious and actually spent most of the conversation wanting to find out about my ministry and the church I was serving. I saw in that little moment why he was such an effective leader and teacher. He was genuine and engaging, and actually cared about what I had to say even though he didn't know me from Adam. So, when I saw that John had written a new book, I went ahead and bought it. I'm glad I did. The same genuine and engaging s...