The infantile Christian reads “Christian self-help books that are filled with self-serving content…slogans, simplistic moralizing, a lot of stories and pictures, and inadequate diagnosis of issues that place no demand on the reader…What will not be read are books that equip people to…develop a well-reasoned, theological understanding of the Christian religion, and fill their role in the broader kingdom of God…[such] a church…will become…impotent to stand against the powerful forces of secularism that threaten to bury Christian ideas under a veneer of soulless pluralism and misguided scientism. In such a context, the church will be tempted to measure her success largely…in numbers achieved by cultural accommodation to empty selves. In this way…the church will become her own grave digger; her means of short-term ‘success’ will turn out to be the very thing that marginalizes her in the long run.” (JP Moreland in his book Love Your God with All Your Mind, pp. 93-94)
