According to George Barna, we evangelicals, aren't quite a theologically cohesive group yet…..Based on the newest Barna Update, one out of every four self-identified evangelicals has not accepted Christ as their savior.
Now I'm a bit confused because for the last 27 years, I've thought it was well-accepted in evangelical circles that it was some other church groups whose members didn't quite have their theology straight.
By the way, ever since Scott McKnight's recent Christianity Today article Five Streams in the Emergent Church, I've been pretty unconfused about emergent. Fortunately, this leaves me free to focus on evangelical confusions. Good thing The Barna Group has issued a call for clarity.
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lol, how long is a piece of string.
I think evangelicals have distinctive characteristics but are far from a unified bunch - heh did you see Jason Clark’s piece on recovering his evangelicalism http://www.jasonclark.ws/2006/12/12/recovering-my-evangelicalism/
so altho organisations who claim to represent us might argue that they represent a homegeneous voting block i think that is far from the case and a good thing too
Once upon a time (i.e., before I was born), fundamentalist meant one ascribed to certain doctrinal positions. Now, hardly anyone I know uses the word to describe doctrine - it has become a sociological marker.
Back in the late 90s it was becoming clear to me (only through other, clearer thinkers) that evangelical was going the same way - as a marker for certain kinds of middle class and lower middle class churchpersonship.