Given the significant collapse of the influence of the church in American culture, and given the fact that church attendance is holding up only because people are living longer, and given signs of heightened spiritual awareness accompanied by a loss of affection for religious institutions and given how God is working in other parts of the world where Pentecost is happening every hour, you might think that North American church leaders would be scrambling to deal with the real issues underlying these realities.

Wrong question: How do we "do church" better?
Tough question: How do we "be church better?  Or how do we deconvert from "Churchianity (institutional  religion) to "Christianity"(the movement)?

Wrong question: How do we grow this church?
Tough question:  How do we serve this community?

Wrong question: How do we develop ministers for the church?
Tough question:  How do we develop missionaries to the culture?
 
Wrong question:  How do we develop church members?
Tough question:  How do we develop followers of Jesus?

Wrong question:  How do we plan for the future we see?
Tough question:  How do we prepare for the future God sees?

Wrong question:  How do we develop leaders for church work?
Tough question:  How do we develop leaders for the Christian movement?

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