The church in Western Europe and North America is struggling with deep disappointment. We are disappointed with the failure of the Christendom project. The grand attempt to produce a continent of Christian civilization through the apparatus of the state is either dead or dying. It appears that secularism has already won in Europe and will win in North America. So we either deny it (more easily done in America), or we angrily blame scapegoats (those we claim have “compromised the gospel”), or we simply trudge along, a bit sad about it all, nostalgic for a mythical past. The church in the post-Christendom world is walking the Emmaus Road. Confused and disappointed. But our confusion and disappointment, like that of the original Emmaus Road disciples, comes from misunderstanding the nature of Christ's kingdom.