Thread by @timkellernyc

Thread: There seem to be basically two kinds of critics of evangelicals. “A-Critics” say evangelicals have done wrong because they HAVE NOT lived up to their own theology. Their theology is largely good and right, but it should be practiced consistently. 1/6

Sadly, American evangelicals have allowed hyper-individualism, misogyny, uncritical nationalism, anti-intellectualism, legalism, etc to mute and distort or smother its historic doctrinal commitments. 2/6

“B-Critics” say evangelicals have done wrong because they HAVE lived up to their theology—that it IS wrong. Evangelical belief in the infallibility of the Bible, the necessity of faith in Christ for salvation, the need to be born again-should be abandoned because they're toxic. 3

I’m (obviously) an A-critic. American evangelicals have major soul-searching, repenting, and renewing to do. Evangelical institutions need to be critiqued. But Twitter is not the medium to have this exchange. For B-critics—you have many important things for us to hear. 4/6

I'm listening even if I push back in some ways as well. But, to be practical, B-critics need to realize that worldwide evangelicalism is not going away. I hope the reality that world evangelicalism/Pentecostalism is going to be growing steadily over the next 30 years, while 5/6

secularists will be declining as a % of the world population will incentivize us to talk to each other rather than wish that one group is going to go away. gordonconwell.edu/center-for-glo… 6/6