The Future of Today's Christianity
As Fuller Seminary's Richard Mouw likes to say, "The church is in really bad shape today. It's almost as bad as it was in the first century." The church that Christ promised to build survived the license of Corinth, the legalism of Galatia, and the lukewarmness of Laodicea. It will survive, and more than survive, in our time, because it is built not by human hands but by Christ himself. He constantly renews and reforms his people. He breathes new life and new forms into being in response to institutional decay. And every day he calls sinners from every nation to himself, transforming them into sons and daughters in a new family.
Christianity Today is for everyone who has been caught up in that story, everyone who wants to know how that story is unfolding in our time. We cannot imagine a more exciting time to be Christians than today, and we can't imagine a better job than leading Christianity Today. We hope you will join us for the adventure ahead.
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Lucy Panda
It would be helpful if you offered a definition of "evangelicalism." Otherwise the accuracy of your paens of praise is hard to assess.
Hugh Wetmore
Back in the turbulent transformation times of the early 1990s, birthing the New Democratic South Africa, Alan Boesak invited the GenSec of the Evangelical Fellowship of SA to debate the respective Futures of Liberation & Evangelical Theologies. Dr Boesak said the struggle would only be over when the last oppressed person had been liberated. Evangelicals saw Oppression as a major, but not the only, manifestation of Sin in the human heart. So Evangelicals would struggle on till Jesus returned to usher in the new heavens and earth in which righteousness has its home (2 Peter 3:13). Evangelicalism will always be relevant. After 1994, the liberal ecumenical churches were unsure of their calling in a post-apartheid South Africa, and held conferences to find and define a new purpose for their existence. The Evangelicals met to plan how to contextualise their already-defined evangelical purpose in the new post-apartheid environment. This Debate clarified Evangelicalism's permanent relevance.
Jim Ricker
We do not need a new Christendom, it is counterproductive at best. No political party promotes the whole counsel of God and that means none of them are worthy of being known as the "Party of Evangelicals."