Jeremy L. Berg

“Why do so many seekers report that they are attracted to Jesus but not to the church?  Perhaps the problem is that the church has done a splendid job of concealing the powerful life-giving Jesus. We domesticate him; we make him our servant; we assume that people have more knowledge about him than they do. We are producing Christians who lack the vitality and depth that should mark Christ-followers. To quote John Perkins again, ‘We have over-evangelized the world too lightly.’ We have allowed a narrow and limited understanding of Jesus to marginalize and reduce the revolutionary nature of his message and mission” (“The American Church in Crisis, p. 187).