Understanding the Present by Looking at the Past

When anyone faces a systemic problem it behooves them to try to figure out how the system was created. We are going to look to the past to try to understand why American churches, whose cultural influence has been in decline for three or four decades, are poised for non engagement with dozens of people groups who: (1) are begging to be engaged (2) already have Parachurch organizations strategically placed to help train and connect church people to the front lines of local mission!

Of course, some might argue, that engaging people groups is exactly what Seeker Churches or Gen X Churches do. But there are well over a hundred definable people groups on the American landscape. So the fact that every decade or two a few churches expand to embrace one or two more groups just doesn’t cut it!