A Tribe Called Forward

"To belong to God is to belong to His heart. If we have responded to the call of Jesus to leave everything and follow Him, then there is a voice within us crying out, "Fight for the heart of your King!" ... "yet Christianity over the past two thousand years has moved from a tribe of renegades to a religion of conformists." ... "A quick survey of the modern church would lead you to believe His invitation was "Come, and listen, ..." ... "Perhaps the tragedy of our time is that such an overwhelming number of us who declare Jesus as Lord have become domesticated - or if you will, civilized. We have lost the passion and power of that raw, untamed, and primal faith."

Erwin Raphael McManus, The Barbarian Way