Church Growth, Ecclesiology, Fundamentalism, Sociology, Theology, Politics & Social Sciences 

The church has never been as numerically strong or as globally widespread as it is today. Christianity is presently the world's largest religion - with 1.6 billion adherents. Yet, as we prepare to enter the third millennium, the Church is wrestling within itself to identify both its moral base in a culture that has generally abandoned moral absolutes and its role in a world that tends to view the religious establishment as irrelevantly archaic, Internally riddled with dissension, the Church's testimony has become blunted by mediocrity and its voice muted by compromise. As a result, today's Church is in danger of simply meandering across the millennial line, having lost sight of God's original purpose. The crisis of the Church is serious, and it must be successfully confronted if the Church is to be in the next millennium what it was in the first: alight shining in the darkness of the moral maze and hand the hand of God reaching out to heal the sick, bless the underclass, lift the downtrodden, and give hope and life to the hurting masses. - from Amzon