For years now we have bemoaned the state of the Western Church, longing for change, praying for revival, looking for new methods and programs and ideas. And God has answered us in many wonderful ways; some real progress has been made. But I fear that most of us have not yet realized how serious the problem is and have failed, therefore, to realize just how serious—how sweeping and wide-ranging and dramatic and radical—the solution must be. There is a reason why thousands of churches close down every