This post is a long rambling description of why I don’t think the term “evangelical” is fit for purpose and why I don’t use it.
Tag: evangelicalism
Big Stuff
…if mass rape and murder don’t illustrate humanity’s desperate need for Jesus, then, frankly, I don’t now what does.
Are all Evangelicals Evangelicals
The church around the globe (and, increasingly, the church in the West) does not fit neatly into the categories that we bring to it.
A short review of a very good book indeed.
The Gospel and Racism
Evangelical history includes positively many voices for justice and pioneers of abolitionism, such as William Wilberforce, but also negatively those who assimilated the values of their surrounding unjust culture. Yet the basis of evangelical faith is Scripture, climaxing in the good news of Jesus Christ.
Books I Have Read: Story Bearer
So much of our training in evangelism stops after we have prepared people to communicate the gospel. However, the best evangelists aren’t necessarily just expert speakers, but expert listeners. Sharing faith is not just about giving great answers, it’s about asking great questions.
Mission and Dialogue
If we don’t listen to people, we will almost certainly misunderstand and misconstrue their beliefs and our presentation of the gospel is likely to go flying over their heads in a blaze of irrelevance.
Our job is to point people to Jesus, but in order to do that, we have to start with where they are, not with where we think they should be. This means that we have to listen and learn.
What Is A Christian?
Only God Knows Who Are His. The starting point has to be that God is the only arbiter of who is and who is not a Christian. We can draw our lines where we will, but we will be wrong.
Thesis Abstract
What I’ve spent the last four years working on.