The current crisis of the church is that many define it out of the world’s narrative. In recent years the church has become a business, with Jesus as the commodity to be marketed and advertised. . . . While [this approach] has resulted in numbers, it struggles to form depth. . . . Churches formed by culture will nourish culturally formed Christians. . . . A people shaped by the embrace of God, then, is the alternative to a people shaped by culture.
-Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006), 221-222.