A couple years ago I was reading “The Forgotten Ways” by Alan Hirsch. At some point I stopped. I’m not sure why. I remember around that time I was getting really frustrated with the way church was and I was reading a lot of books about the problems with church but I couldn’t find much support to fix those problems. I think that might be why I stopped reading books about church for a while. I was cleaning up my office yesterday and I came across this book again. I opened it to the page AFTER my bookmark and read this.  You may or may not already know where I’m going with this. I have seen 2 local churches self destruct due to this very thing over the last two years. That’s right, I said two. Both churches saw compelling opportunity to reach out to more people than ever. Both churches got eaten alive in the rapid, discontinuous change happening around them. The result: in one case a new...