'Non-discipleship is the elephant in the church. It is not the much discussed moral failures, financial abuses of the amazing general similarity between Christians and no-Christians. These are only effects of the underlying problem. The fundamental negative reality among Christian believers now is their failure to be constantly learning how to lives their lives in the Kingdom Among Us. And it is an accepted reality. The division of professing Christians into those for whom it is a matter of whole-life devotion to God and those who maintain a consumer, or client, relationship to the church has now been an accepted reality for over fifteen hundred years.'
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy, p.330.
