I work with a lot of church folks who are trying to promote their latest ministry. Everyone has a different, and they believe better, way for all of us to be better Christians. They usually hold this view because they believe God has given them a vision for ministry, a purpose if you will, that they are destined to fulfill. So with all of the effort and resources devoted to a variety of sometimes competing visions that God is supposedly giving to His shepherds, why is it that the church (at least the North American Evangelical church) so often seems self-absorbed and powerless? Could it be that the ministry activities designed to fulfill supposedly God-given visions are rooted in something other than Divine guidance? I think so. I wonder what would happen in the aforementioned Evangelical church if its adherents simply fell in love with Christ and His Word. What if clever marketing and consumer-centric approaches were replaced by the genuine power of the Holy Spirit? What if lives that...