The message of the cross was not absent from the Hybelses’ vision for a new kind of church. “We need to be reckless purveyors of saving grace,” they said. “In the end, it’s only this love of Christ that can change [us].”2 This book, along with Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church3 and the blueprint for a seeker-targeted model of ministry they presented, scratched a big itch for me and for many others. And it wasn’t because they planned to discard the gospel. But the problem, as many of us see
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