Comments on the survival of the “Evangelical movement”

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Reading “On the Lasting Evangelical Survival” by Christianity Today Online. Whereas sometimes I have to ask myself if there is such a thing as an “evangelical movement”, it has been said that such a “movement” is in danger of dying out. I would certainly contend that rather than evangelical faith dying out (indeed, charismatic evangelical Christianity is probably the one segment of Christianity that is experiencing exponential growth) what is dying is a certain “project” that resembled a politico-evangelical faith, especially in the USA.  Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today has written about this online, and has these comments to offer:

What I will do, to my dying day, is work with anyone who knows he was lost but now is found, whose Bible is worn because she repeatedly looks there for God to speak, who finds the Cross the most meaningful of symbols, for whom the Resurrection is not just a doctrine but a power, and who wants nothing more than to find new and creative ways to share the evangel of Jesus in word and deed. I’ll work with these people no matter what scholars decide to call them.

WOW – awesome words Mark! I wish they were really heard by many evangelicals and then shouted from the rooftops!!

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