We are full of it.... we are full of hot air, bologna, theology, hyper-spirituality, and the fact is that we aren't doing anything other than congratulating ourselves on the profundity of our revelations.
Between 70 and 80 percent of evangelicals in America, by the time they are twenty-one, will leave the faith and never return. Did you hear that? We are not even reaching our own children.
It's like we have a broken down car and we're trying to sell it to the world, saying, buy our product.
Our product stinks. We have nothing to sell but our Bible opinions. And how is the world responding to our bible opinions?
But we're going to keep doing it because we've got the "Bible."
But we're not delivering on the life, the love, the power, the truth, the Incarnate....(sigh!) ..... we are not delivering on Jesus as a general rule."
Seventy to eighty percent of our own children should be a terrifying statistic. It should cause us to sit back and say,
"Dear God how many hours, how much money is being poured into this thing called Christianity, and my own children aren't even serving the lord?"
This is broken Saints. It's broken! It's broken, broken, broken! But we're going to have an evangelism outreach, we are going to pass out... [pamplets or flyers]
Oh my!
- Stephen Crosby!
Read this Book as it gets to the real issue below the surface that we never talk about in church.
This insight in how our history, our past, our emotions, and our emotional responses and mechanisms affects us today, is simply extraordinary.
I found the book to be the typical slick marketing and packaging to make a "Program" to sell to churches. So the writing is the usual dumbed own style of language and writing of typical evangelical programs,
but in no way is this books HELP and INSIGHT shallow.
He hits subjects not talked about.
It is VERY well written.
Every leader should read this book.
