can be recovered anyway, so why bother? After all, the “secret” to building a “successful” church is now thought to be getting to know the new trinity of technology, psychology, and marketing, not the Trinity of the Bible. This book, on the other hand, is motivated by the conviction that the message of the Bible provides the only answer to humanity’s most pressing need: to know God himself. Having been created by God for God, the “self” can never be “self-satisfied.” Yet, having lost sight of the