THE STATE OF EVANGELICALISM--IT IS NOT AS BAD AS YOU THINK! The worse the news is, the faster it travels,” says Ed Stetzer of LifeWay. Do not believe the alarmists who want you to believe that evangelical Christianity in America is dying or on the verge of collapse. Many alarmists are just trying to sell books and magazines. No serious researcher who studies the subject believes Christianity as a whole in this country is in imminent. However, liberal mainline cultural Christianity is collapsing due to a lack of Bible doctrine. Stetzer believes that in the midst of the cultural Christianitys collapse and the growth of apathetic secularism, evangelicals have a duty to put our theological house in order. Doing so could mean, ironically, a bright future for believers in this country. “What a post-Christian future points to is a more robust Christian experience. So I think, as nominal Christianity kind of dies away, Christians are going to get more serious, churches are going to get more focused on disciple making and I think this kind of transition has to happen…If we’re going to have a Christian future (and I think we are) then it’s going to be with Christians who know the Gospel, are living out its implications faithfully, more fruitfully in their lives, and really knowing theology better.” Read more below...
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:39:55 +0000
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