I suspect that Western individualism has done more than any other single factor to anesthetize and even euthanize the power of the Gospel. Salvation, heaven, hell, worthiness, grace, and eternal life all came to be read through the lens of separate ego, crowding God’s transformative power out of history and society. Even Martin Luther’s needed “justification by faith” sent us on a five-hundred-year battle for the private soul of the individual, thus leaving us with almost no care for the earth, society, the outsider, or the full Body of Christ.