"For those of us who care about the mainline Protestant churches, Bill Gregory has written an important book a book that celebrates our strengths, helps us understand our struggles, and prods us prophetically to find new paths into the future. The author's long experience as preacher and pastor is manifest here, making the book not only graceful in expression and insightful in content but practical in application as well. As the earthen vessels of mainline Protestantism crumble, we can see its treasures more clearly. This book reveals the great volue of our treasure and shows us how to invest it and spend it for the love of God's world."