I’m encouraged by the signs of resurgence…

But then I look deeper, beyond the façade of religiosity, the flurry of activity and the new $25 million sanctuary… What I see is a gap—often a chasm—between what the church is and what it ought to be. I see the disparity between what Christians say and what they do, between what they know and how they live, between what they promise and how much they fulfill.^{^[1]}