That’s because real godly change—real sanctification—requires a people to live together in covenantal relationships, and we’re less inclined to that than any generation in human history. More than any before us, an American today believes “I must write the script of my own life.” The thought that such a script must be subordinated to the grand narrative of the Bible is a foreign one. Still more alarming is the idea that this surrender of our personal story to God’s story must be mediated by a community