«It seems to me that most
evangelical congregations make a sharp divide between the sacred and secular realms,» says Lindsay, «so that church is the last context where you'll see women in ordained roles.»
In 1987, Peter Gillquist, a former leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, and 200 others in a single
evangelical congregation made national headlines when they were chrismated (or confirmed) into the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
Not exact matches
To the collective gasps of their
congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by
making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of
evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»
Indeed, an argument could be
made that at no time since the First Great Awakening have so many churches of disparate denominational, theological and stylistic approaches been so united in terms of their music: one can now walk into old - line Pentecostal churches, small - town
evangelical congregations, mall - like suburban megachurches, and many a mainline Protestant sanctuary across the country on any given Sunday morning and hear the same hymns and choruses done in approximately the same musical styles, with similar settings and instrumentation.