John MacArthur warns the church against adopting a pragmatic attitude that ignores biblical doctrine and concerns itself more with achievement and success than with communicating the word of God without shame. The argument is that method is never theologically neutral.

Tragically, he writes, much current church thinking emphasizes church growth rather than doctrine, gives more weight to entertaining congregations than to feeding them, and treats truth as secondary to whatever works. The remedy is a return to the commission to go into all the world and preach the gospel. The Spanish edition of Ashamed of the Gospel.