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God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here is the much-anticipated sequel to David F. Wells’ widely praised book No Place for Truth, which garnered multiple “Book of the Year” awards from Christianity Today. Building on the trenchant cultural and religious analyses of evangelical Protestantism set forth in his first volume, Wells argues in God in the Wasteland that the church is now enfeebled because it has lost its sense of God’s...

sin, that we should be more concerned with technique than with repentance, and that neighborhood surveys are more crucial than the Word of God for securing the church’s spiritual growth. The fact is that while we may be able to market the church, we cannot market Christ, the gospel, Christian character, or meaning in life. The church can offer handy child care to weary parents, intellectual stimulation to the restless video generation, a feeling of family to the lonely and dispossessed—and, indeed,
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