Because of the schism, the church could no longer be true salt and true light for society in spiritual unity, for it was divided right down to its very core. It lost its role as an active spiritual counterweight to the destructive forces of darkness. The enemy was able to divide Christianity from within and thus, so to speak, neutralize it.

German Christianity lost its spiritual calling to serve the nation as both king and priest. It no longer fought (consciously or unconsciously) against the “powers in the heavenly realm”—against satanic ideologies, philosophies, forces, and developments—but instead fought against itself. They no longer fired at the enemy; they fired at their own army.

Even if we don't like to hear it and it rubs us the wrong way—offending our pride, our ego, and perhaps even our theology:
For 100 years now, German Christianity has been stagnating. The number of people who claim to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is today nearly the same as it was in 1909, amounting to an absolute figure of about 1.5 million people. For 100 years, the “status quo” has been maintained, so to speak.

To this day, the Body of Christ in Germany has hardly kept pace with the dynamic spiritual developments that emerged throughout the world in the 20th century.