Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Hard-hitting, honest, and inspirational

A clearly-written, honest, hard-hitting call to faithful living and a spiritually disciplined life. Although I didn't connect with everything the author puts forth, the book gets 5 stars for its candid and scathing review of today's culture and it's clear description of the counter-cultural nature of the spiritual disciplines. Also contains frequent, rich use of scripture that is systematic and theologically sound. Every modern Christian should read this.