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Do Evangelicals Have a Future?

Leaders see cultural captivity choking out the gospel.

Collin Hansen | posted 1/04/2008 09:26AM

It's an American pastime to speculate about the future around the New Year. And it's an evangelical pastime to take stabs at defining the movement. A recent Touchstone magazine symposium of evangelical ...

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Ephrem Hagos

Posted: January 14, 2008 7:52 AM


The Gospel of Jesus Christ will be free from the fetters of cultural captivity only if it is divorced completely from theology.

RALPH

Posted: January 11, 2008 5:13 PM


GET READY!!!!! http://americaphile.blogspot.com/2008/01/piaps-exposed.html

Devin Murphy

Posted: January 04, 2008 6:44 PM


That's the truth. Luckily God doesn't change eventho' the world does. in Him, Devin Murphy If anyone is interested in a free church small group resource, check out www.livekite.com and start a profile and a forum for private, or public discussion.

Devin Murphy

Posted: January 04, 2008 6:43 PM


That's the truth. Luckily God doesn't change eventho' the world does. in Him, Devin Murphy If anyone is interested in a free church small group resource, check out www.livekite.com and start a profile and a forum for private, or public discussion.

Devin Murphy

Posted: January 04, 2008 6:42 PM


That's the truth. Luckily God doesn't change eventho' the world does. in Him, Devin Murphy If anyone is interested in a free church small group resource, check out www.livekite.com and start a profile and a forum for private, or public discussion.

Devin Murphy

Posted: January 04, 2008 6:37 PM


That's the truth. Luckily God doesn't change eventho' the world does. in Him, Devin Murphy If anyone is interested in a free church small group resource, check out www.livekite.com and start a profile and a forum for private, or public discussion.

Doug	Posted: January 04, 2008 5:01 PM

If evangelicalism is going to survive then Biblical truth needs to be placed at a higher level. The issue is the gospel itself. With popular preachers like Joel Osteen who are theological nymphs gathering in the masses the Christian community will soon turn into a self-absorbed social group. We have defined success not as faithfulness to the message, but rather by who's got the biggest church. I personally do not have a great deal of hope for American Evangelicals. I have heard too much bad preaching. The Bible seems to be a secondary book in our churches. The text is read and then never referred to. Its the self-help stories and psychobablel the preacher tells that tickles the ears rather than the great truths of God, Christ, sin, and redemption that convicts of sin and brings about repentance this is drawing the masses.

RJR_fan

Posted: January 04, 2008 2:35 PM

The elephant in the living room is the fact that most Evangelical parents are cooperating nicely with the humanist program for their extermination. More than 80% of evangelical parents send their kids to public school, rendering unto Caesar that which is God's. If a state church were to demand that we spend an hour a week sitting in an approved worship service, we'd scream bloody murder. When, however, the state, and those who worship it, confiscate 30 hours / week of our children's lives, to indoctrinate them in a godless way of understanding "life, the universe, and everything," we acquiesce. St. Gregory called the Appolonarians, those who denied the human mind of Jesus, as truly mindless themselves. If we are willing to have our children's minds shaped by the sworn enemies of our faith, then we proclaim to the world, to the angels, and to God that our faith has no factual content.

Robert

Posted: January 04, 2008 1:51 PM

Actually, Evangelicalism is a counter-movement, which became desperate for acceptance by the broader culture. As a result it has become beholden to the materialism of contemporary society in a way that undermines its central tenants in manner which most who claim to be Evangelicals do not understand. Evangelicalism is no longer a counter-movement, but a subculture intent on dominating the greater culture, but only with respect to a narrow band of issues, ie, abortion, homosexuality, when the real problems plaguing our culture are materialism, consumerism, a diet of debt, no concept of the notion of deferred gratification, self indulgence, mass media and entertainment, and anti-intellectualism (it seems that Evangelicals think out greatest threat is a popular novel written by Dan Brown, a faulty translation of the Gospel of Judas and an quickly dismissed claim to have found the tomb of Jesus). Evangelicalism is on a fast path not toward extinction, but that of becoming irrelevant.

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