of his day, they seem eerily familiar to me. I’ll just review them here and let you decide: • “Our Christianity is thin and anemic, without thoughtful content, frivolous in tone and worldly in spirit” (p. 8). • Our preaching has lost its lofty outlook and is lacking in substance. “We in the gospel churches think that we’ve got to entertain the people or they won’t come back. We have lost the seriousness out of our preaching and have become silly” (pp. 8–9). • Our reading material lacks depth; it
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