As much as I wish I didn't care, I still dream of
an evangelicalism where both my friend Jen Hatmaker (who wrote this) and my friend Ben Moberg (who wrote this) are welcome at the same table.
Simply put, I don't want to live in
an evangelicalism where we can not tell men to «act like men» using a verse that says, well, «Act like men.»
In an era of
evangelicalism where there are church ministries built around the idea of «family,» marriage has become the focus of countless books and sermons and «family friendly» entertainment...
Not exact matches
What Steve and I, and other converts to Lutheranism (the original «
evangelicalism») share, is a time in life
where our life became «free» because of proper Christian doctrine and we are imbued with this.
He casts a rather long shadow in
Evangelicalism within the U.S., especially in its Reformed and Baptist wings
where this debate has been the most vigorous.
In this way of conceiving
evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology
where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.
But sometimes you get a long way into what you think is a clear discussion of
evangelicalism, and suddenly realize that the person doing the talking is getting increasingly shrill about how the hallway needs to have more room for seats in it, and wants to know
where we're going to put the worship band or the choir, and
where the weddings take place.
As the organization grew, Johnson felt a hunger to step out and share his story with people who are uncertain, or ex-Christ-followers, struggling with belief in an age
where evangelicalism seems to have given up its core values in the name of bringing alleged child molester, Roy Moore, into the Senate.
I certainly hope we create a community here
where everyone - those leaving
evangelicalism, those staying, and those just trying to figure it out - is welcome to the table, so long as it is approached with peace.
In fact, to suggest that good works are of central importance to the Christian faith is often considered heretical in the world of conservative
evangelicalism,
where advocating any form of «works - based salvation» is looked upon with suspicion.
Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to
where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative
evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.
But Farron's particular mix of robust
evangelicalism and liberal voting patterns are less familiar, which is
where the belief / behaviour question becomes more interesting.
Again, I'm not happy with
where evangelicalism is, but we have to be clear about what the data shows.
Frankly, this blog strikes me as one of those deals
where the former pastor figures out that all the other religious people are wrong, and he doesn't want to be one of those «fundie douchebags» (to quote one of your fans), and so he starts spewing cynical knee - jerk vitriol against anything that smacks of conservativism or
evangelicalism or whatever.
This book is billed as an examination of progressive
evangelicalism, but to me it read more like a series of dispatches from «the margins» —
where the Spirit is working in some mighty ways.
Hispanic Americans are one of the fastest - growing demographics in
evangelicalism, surging in Pentecostal and Assemblies of God traditions as well as among Southern Baptists,
where a majority of new church plants are now non-white.
As many have noted elsewhere,
evangelicalism has become so intertwined with conservative politics that it can be hard to tell at times
where Republicanism begins and
evangelicalism ends.
One element of
evangelicalism remains in continuity with 19th - century
evangelicalism (then mainstream Protestantism), and has never passed through the narrow valley
where fundamentalists fought modernists.
Establishment
evangelicalism was reinforced by the Billy Graham Center's location at Wheaton College, by Christianity Today's removal from Washington, D.C., to Chicago suburbs
where evangelical independency has deep roots, and by formation of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.
The problem is that in the context of American
evangelicalism,
where religious images are often absent, pop - culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and images that a faith community encounters.
But whereas on the continent and in Britain Pietism and
Evangelicalism spawned movements that were largely held within the saving forms of the dominant churches, in America
where the church forms were already greatly weakened, Pietistic sentiments tended through revivalism to become so dominant that denominations were formed on this basis alone.