William Stringfellow wrote in An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land, on the roots of many North American expressions of Church and how they are born out of Western culture. He wrote, "So it is not that such "churches" have abandoned the gospel they once upheld and have become acculturated and conformed, but that they have been from their origins American cultural productions or Babylonian shrines."
When I read what Stringfellow wrote, I understand that the reason that Western Christendom does not work for Indigenous society is because it is missing the gospel at its core. It does not have the resources to actually share the gospel because it has not had a gospel encounter. Maybe that could change.
