beliefs independent of any churches or synagogues,” and among the baby-boom generation, that figure can only be higher.26 In such a climate, the mandate of Philippians to subordinate self-interest to the interests of Jesus Christ and to draw bold, unyielding boundaries around the essence of the gospel needs to be heard. If it is not, the church stands in danger of following the culture away from the truth of the gospel and into a syncretistic morass of “answers” to the search for self-fulfillment.