The Diagnosis

Three forces, two conditions, and how the church's vision gets narrowed.

Narrowing occurs when God's self-disclosure is not recognized as authoritative, so that a community lives according to incomplete stories that claim to be complete. It happens beneath doctrine and belief, which is what makes it difficult to see. Across seven conversations, James Spencer and Ashish Varma work through the three forces that capture the church inside a story claiming more completeness than it has, and the two conditions that make those forces harder to recognize and harder to resist.