So I'm seeing folks discuss the age-old Q about who is & who isn't an evangelical & it raises another equally significant Q for me:
To whom do the outliers belong then? Who is going yo take responsibility to confront & warn them?
To whom do the outliers belong then? Who is going yo take responsibility to confront & warn them?
I understand the importance of carefully defining terms & movements, but it strikes me as an exercise w/out a real world purpose or end. Other than perhaps distancing ourselves from certain elements.
It's one thing to say XYZ is no true evangelical & while that might be rhetorically significant, I'm not sure it's pastorally significant especially if it enables us to just ignore or disregard the outlier.
The truth is that the American church is not okay. And whether that sickness falls within the strict bounds of evangelicalism or outside it, it doesn't stop the disease from spreading.
I can be perfectly assured that my family does not have a virus, but if it's raging in my community, it's only a matter of time before we do.
So I guess I'm curious: How do we take responsibility for elements in the American church that, while we might argue are outside mainstream evangelicalism, still must be faced & accounted for?
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