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Ian Stackhouse brings out a very good point in his The Gospel-Driven Church
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"Nevertheless, as the church became aware of its increasingly marginalized status, vision triumphed-and with it, prophetic rhetoric" (Ian Stackhouse, The Gospel-Driven Church
, p 29).
In our attempt to be relevant, contemporary, and practical, we have lost things very important to the church: integrity, true relevance, and our prophetic voice.
We trade numerical growth for true prophetic relevancy.
We hate being marginalized, so we desperately seek whatever means to not be marginalized, to be noted, to be in the main stream, to be recognized.
Stackhouse is so right on in stating that from the church's true marginalized status, when it accepts this role, "vision" triumphs and the church regains its "prophetic rhetoric.