I say this book was disappointing for a number of reasons.
First, OneCry is based on a myopic reading the biblical narrative. The basic premise, repeated several times and in different ways, is that the US is in grave spiritual and moral decline and crisis -- as focused by what is referred to early in the discussion as the "three great spiritual diseases" of abortion, divorce and pornography. Nowhere in the entire narrative do the authors refer to the much more generic ills of greed, injustice and the tendencies towards warfare and environmental destruction which are the real drivers of that "decay and decline" in our society which they decry. While pushing so many hot-button cultural issues, they miss the larger biblical narrative's thrust against the the diseases that often cripple nations.
Second, OneCry seriously misreads the New Testament's thrust of Jesus' mission. While certain segments of Judaism in Jesus' day understood the Messiah was to come to reconstitute the nation of Israel as God's people, Jesus himself rejected the mission of creating a nation with borders, a people who would be bound to the land and who would usher in God's Kingdom with political power. Instead, the Kingdom present in Jesus is larger than the national boundaries that political powers claim for themselves.
Third, OneCry express a completely fanciful perception of the "decay and demoralization" of America based on the criteria of church attendance. While it's true that other "great awakenings" in American history produced large numbers of church attenders, it is also true that those church attenders did not turn into disciples of Jesus who went about engaging in the mission Jesus describes in Luke 4, for example. American culture has continued, in large measure, to be as xenophobic and prejudiced that it completely misunderstands the image of the faithful Body of Christ that's described in Galatians 3.23.
In large part, OneCry misses so many opportunities for genuine reflection on what the Church might look like, that I really can't describe this book as anything other than a disappointment.
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I received a free copy of this book from Moody Publishing in exchange for my honest review here.