and trendy as possible, and not too serious or formal. This approach, we’re told by many of the experts, is the only way churches can expect to see dramatic growth in the twenty-first century. Let’s face it: pragmatism is a significant change in direction for evangelical Christianity. Until the last part of the Twentieth Century, virtually all the great churches since the Protestant Reformation deemed great and worthy of emulation were primarily so because they had great pulpits. They were primarily