The Challenge of Giving Up Our Ambition of Technique

You write in the book that our modern lust for technique comes from the fact that we live in the great age of how to. Our temptation then is to pursue the admirable goal of becoming more persuasive, you say. You see the American church has exported this sort of trust in technology throughout much of the whole of the world. And it's an absolute disaster because it leads away from our reliance on the Holy Spirit and the reliance on becoming incarnate as follows of Christ reaching out.