The American church has overestimated the good that comes from mere scientific progress or doctrinal correctness, or from social progress, missionary work, and evangelism. The church has been shaken to its foundations by ideological, technological, and military movements on a scale never before experienced by humankind, as it has been smothered by mass culture, mindless “prosperity,” insipid education, and pseudo-egalitarianism. And as a result, the church at present has lost any realistic and specific sense of what it means for the individual believer to “grow in the grace and knowledge of
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