I actually saw this quote in a book I am reading now, Everyday Church, by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. I highly recommend their book as it not only addresses many of the reasons we aren't reaching the lost, but also a clear path forward based on an exegesis of 1 Peter.
I do think this quote by Os Guinness hits the mark -
"By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant" (Prophetic Untimeliness, p. 15).
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