“We believe the patient is indeed desperately sick and needs to recover from a religious system that places a premium on outward success.  We add our voices to the growing number of those inside and outside the church who are calling for the church to be reformed.  We Christian leaders have created the current religious system, or at least have been complicit in its flourishing, and we ought to feel a responsibility for the rather meager and impotent product that has resulted.  An important and messy dialogue on these issues is required of us.  This book is an attempt to lend our voices to that dialogue (15).”