This book is both timely and needed. Provocative, yes, because the message is essential at this decisive 'hinge moment' in time. -- Philip Yancey, Author, iVanishing Grace piThe Way Backi is the way forward. -- Erwin Raphael McManus, Founder of Mosaic, and Author, iThe Last Arrowi p On a dusty hilltop, Jesus once kickstarted His church with a ragtag group of fishermen who called themselves The Way. Truth be told, the builders of Christianity were a bunch of nobodies. Like us, they were powerless and flawed and sometimes petty. But they were committed. They were all-in. Within a remarkably short time, The Way became the world's most influential religious faith -- a force in culture, politics, literature, science, philanthropy, and the arts. Against impossible odds, that group of nobodies astonished the world. pTwo thousand years later -- by any measure -- Christianity is retreating on all fronts. The Way has lost its way. pIn iThe Way Backi, media and marketing experts Phil Cooke and Jo