While I’m sure that there is fault on both sides, closed transcendent institutions have a tendency to emotionally brutalize high-profile detractors. Consequently, these prophetic voices’ forward-looking progressive insights are often laced with understandable bitterness and various degrees of anger toward the evangelical institutions from which they are now distant or rejected. There is a growing number following in their footsteps, people who describe themselves as “spiritually frustrated and homeless.”17 The evangelical church needs to find a way to provide genuine seekers like this—with all
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