The following pages present a series of extracts from
evangelical statements of faith produced between 1950 and the present day.
Not exact matches
The official news release carefully pointed out that the organization was «not officially connected» with the NAE's convention but that its
statement of faith is the same and its membership (open to both homosexuals and heterosexuals) is composed
of «members
of NAE and various
evangelical churches.»
Like The Gift
of Salvation
statement issued by
Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 1997, the Joint Declaration represents a measure
of convergence between Catholic and Reformational understandings
of that article
of faith by which the Church either stands or falls, to quote a favorite Lutheran saying.
The
evangelicals, who run through every denomination, are fun to hang out with on occasion, but they anticipate a level
of enthusiasm out
of me that I just can't muster up every day — I am a person who is chipper some times and acerbic others; I can't handle being happy clappy all the time as some sort
of faith statement.
Posting a website doesn't make your diatribe anymore truthful... you are an
evangelical atheist troll who hangs out on the religion blog and attacks all people
of faith... I'm not saying this as an insult but just a
statement of fact... it's what you do but it doesn't have to be this way... I think you know enough to know that your way ends in an eternity
of anguish... attack me now to save face but please open your hardened heart and take your own journey to find God... ignore the radical wingnuts because this is your own journey.
Rev Dr Jeremiah M Gado, president
of the
Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), to which Leah and her parents belong, issued a
statement saluting her «courage, doggedness and
faith» and condemning «in strong terms any attempt to forcefully convert anyone from one religion to another.»
There is a story out
of Iowa - a story about a
faith community that has matured beyond voting for the «most
evangelical» candidate as a «
statement» and takes seriously the responsibility
of electing someone to occupy the Oval Office at a time
of great national testing.
The memo specifically names
evangelical nonprofit World Vision International as an example
of an exemption, referencing a case where it won the right to hire employees based on its own
faith statement.
What matters here is that the
evangelical leadership at Wheaton takes their
statement of faith seriously and, well, they are unsure that Dr. Hawkins»
statements align with their beliefs.
Clauses in their constitutions specified that their leaders — though not their members — must affirm an
evangelical Christian
statement of faith.