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On the Lasting Evangelical Survival

What will and will not survive of this movement.

Mark Galli | posted 3/11/2009 11:50AM

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What I will do, to my dying day, is work with anyone who knows he was lost but now is found, whose Bible is worn because she repeatedly looks there for God to speak, who finds the Cross the most meaningful of symbols, for whom the Resurrection is not just a doctrine but a power, and who wants nothing more than to find new and creative ways to share the evangel of Jesus in word and deed. I'll work with these people no matter what scholars decide to call them.

For now they are called evangelicals, and I suspect that in one form or another, they'll be around for some time.

Mark Galli is senior managing editor of Christianity Today. This column is cross-posted on his blog. His most recent book is A Great and Terrible Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Attributes of God (Baker).

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Dmitri

Posted: March 21, 2009 2:09 PM

When have we been early adopters of new technology? We should be on top of films and television but we are not. It is something where we can become more like God, it is similar to showing visions -- most evangelicals have missed this. And its not just an ability, technology comes from good character that follows after God: hard work, wisdom, and being a creator like our Father. I think this is one of the biggest failings of the chuch. We must get involved more in technology, especially movies and television, and we DROPPED THE BALL on it in the 20th century. Why? We couldn't get together, to work together, our own doctrines and divisions kept it from being successful. Yes I think TBN falls short of what is right and expected of followers of Christ.

Kris	Posted: March 21, 2009 8:42 AM


Thanks again, Mark. I love your definition of evangelicalism. I chafe against some of cultural evangelicalism, but I'll readily align myself with your definition.

Tesfatadelle

Posted: March 20, 2009 4:21 PM

If revivals are defined by socialogists descriptions or any other descriptions for a given era, then the death of any moment in that era is invitable. However, God's moves are not predictable nor His grace exhaustable. Like Jeremiah, I say "This I call to mind and therefore I have hope; because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His compassions fail not, they are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness" Jer 3:21-24. And I will keep singing "Give me oil in my lamp to keep me burning..." for relents always to calamities Jonah 4:2

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