The biblical notion of hypocrisy doesn’t concern occasional failures. It refers to an ongoing deception in which people pretend to be something they are not and pretend to know God in a way that they do not. All of us should seek to build connections between our actions and our internal experience and beliefs rather than allow them to remain divided. If you sense that your experience of God doesn’t match up with how you portray that relationship to others, be honest with yourself—and with God. He