The Church and Her Walls

The mission of the Church is to propagate the name of Jesus as mankind's only hope of salvation. But somehow, the Western Church has lost sight of this mission. Unless it can regain it, the Western Church faces certain death. In this penetrating study, Dr. Daniel Kolke reveals the forces that have diverted the Church from its mission. He writes: "The basic difficulty with Western churches is that they are hemmed in by all sorts of walls. These walls stem from the Churches in Asia of the first century A.D. The Book of Revelation makes mention of seven Churches that had enclosed themselves with seven different walls. It is the purpose of our study to identify these barriers that hindered the mission of the Churches then and today." The comparison proves to be startling. Today's Churches, like their predecessors, have been culturalized, politicized, nationalized, and secularized. As a result, the Western Church is dying. Dr. Kolke issues an appeal for a new revival in the Western Church to win over the individual to Christ. Without such a revival, he predicts that the Western Church will die in order to give birth to a new Church elsewhere. Readers will find The Church and Her Walls to be a timely and relevant book.