Evangelicals quite typically think of culture as neutral and no more a carrier of implicit or explicit values than are the clothes that they wear. This book challenges that assumption by exposing the manifold ways in which modernity has twisted evangelical faith. Modernity has infused into the church an anthropology that is at odds with biblical faith and that is intent on rewriting that faith in its own image. The modern mind will be quick to conclude that evangelical faith is faltering because it is not efficient enough, or because it is not appealing enough, because it has not adapted itself adequately to the inner needs of those in the modern world. But the problem is not inadequate technique, insufficient organization, or antiquated music.

The fundamental problem is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common. The place to start is with God. The church is called by Him, constituted by Him, empowered by Him, and cleansed by Him. It is therefore with God that we must begin thinking about the church’s reformation today. "I have written this book because the vision of the evangelical church is now clouded and I want the evangelical church to be the church---to be an alternative to post-modern culture, not a mere echo of it." This cannot happen until leaders learn how to detect worldliness and make a clear decision to be weaned from it. What is plainly missing is discernment and this has much to do with the fact that the evangelical world has abandoned theology. Unless we recognize the ways in which the world has insinuated its tentacles into the life of the church, the church will wander in the wasteland, weakened and bewildered.

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