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Authentic Magazine is New Zealand's only Christian men's Magazine, with each quarterly edition packed full with a whole heap of 'real man' stuff.
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Authentic Magazine is New Zealand's only magazine for Christian men. It reaches into thousands of homes, ministries and businesses around NZ, equipping and encouraging men to live out the authentic Christian life - the way God intended it to be lived.
Authentic Magazine began with a simple step of faith and trust in a limitless God. It all started years ago when founder, Dave Firth, helped his buddy, Steve Legg, launch ‘Sorted’ the UK’s only Christian men’s magazine. The following year, Dave moved to New Zealand but kept in touch with Steve and they even talked about launching a men’s magazine here.
With a full load of work and ministry responsibilities, the magazine idea sat on the back burner for a number of years. In 2016, the idea suddenly started getting traction again. As Dave mentioned the idea to prominent Christian leaders here in NZ, they responded with, “That’s a great idea - how can we help?” It finally got to the point where many started to ask, “So, when’s the men’s magazine happening, Dave?”
Together with Lee Hanson, long-time Director of a design agency, Dave spent many hours thinking, praying, planning, laughing (at the thought of doing this) and crying (at the thought of doing this). One could argue that it’s a bad idea to entertain the thought of launching a Christian men’s magazine when life is already busy enough, but that’s where the importance of ‘surrender’ comes in. Although they were both very busy already, they understood that Christ, not busyness, is Life (John 14:6). So it was as simple as ‘surrendering’ it all to Him and that’s when it got exciting.
