Social Transformation:<br >The Challenge to<br >Christianity in America<br > This is a book about tli~future. More specifically， it is<br > the story of America s born-again Christian population<br > as it approaches a crossroad.~<br > Futurists and social analysts are in agreement that<br >this country has entered a period of radical social<br >change. The very foundation upon which our culture<br >has been based is being fundamentally altered. Because<br >of the "ripple effect" of change--whereby even very<br >small modifications of one part of society affect all<br >other parts of society--the Christian population of this<br >nation is being significantly affected by the social meta-<br >morphosis that is underway. The purpose of this book is<br >to evaluate how Christians are responding to the<br >changes that have already started to reshape the con-<br >tours of American society.<br > John Naisbitt， Alvin Toffler， and other cultural<br >observers have provided a well-documented， detailed<br >vision of the United States future.2 By all indicators，<br >the America we knew in 1980 will bear scant resem-<br ><br >