For centuries, humans dreamed of flying like the birds. They strapped wings to their arms. They built strange, flapping machines. But no matter how closely they imitated birds, they could not get off the ground. Then the Wright brothers built a stiff-winged, motorized glider. It didn't look much like a bird or act much like a bird. But it flew. Tim Woodroof takes this story of flight as a parable for Churches of Christ today. For two centuries we've tried to "soar" with the earliest Christians. Along the way we embraced the assumption that we had to look and act like them to get the modern church off the ground. If only we could reinstate the forms of the New Testament church, we would begin to function with its power and grace. But it hasn't turned out that way. This book suggests that the greatest need today is not for a closer imitation of ancient forms, but a new embrace of the "aerodynamic principles" that first lifted the church. It invites us into the Spirit's "wind tunnel" to rediscover those principles--and to catch a new vision of a church that flies.