Several years ago Jim Herrington presented some startling facts: 

• Between 3,500 and 4,000 churches close their doors each year;
• 62,000 churches are without pastors;and
• not one county in the entire U.S. has a higher percentage of churched people today than it did a decade ago.

The American Church is in full retreat.This is not a tactical retreat, or a regrouping—it is surrender. We recede; the enemy advances.  The collateral damage is incalculable, as millions of civilians—American citizens—are crushed by the weight of enemy oppression.

Why do we tolerate in the spirit what we would never tolerate in the flesh? Is it time for a counter-offensive?  How can we wait?