Looking for "authentic"

Google the word "authentic" and the first three things that pop up are a software package, an ebay ad to find "authentic" items for less, and a website to find authentic designer merchandise at 40% off. If you type that word in YouTube, you get videos about a authentic baseball cards, a keyboard that sounds like an authentic electric guitar, and "authentic" footage of ghosts in Gettysburg battlefield. And, in Wikipedia, "authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion and intentions."

When you look for "authenticity," where do you find it? I had a conversation yesterday with a guy that is fed up with the church in North America because, as a whole, it is not authentic... truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions is rarely found in the large majority of people that claim a connection to God, Church, and the Christian Faith. People will continue to look for authentic merchandise, authentic replicas, and authentic ghost footage... but even more than that, people are looking for "authentic" people. As you go through your life today, live authentically... live with a true understanding of where you come from (origins), what you live by (attributions), what you say you will do (commitments), how you feel (sincerity), what is most important to you (devotion), and what you really have in mind (intentions). As we live out our lives authentically, then maybe, just maybe, we will be able to help connect people in an authentic relationship with a very real God.