A recent meeting of leading evangelical leaders issued a statement about evangelicalism that read, in part:
“We have become deeply concerned about some movements within traditional evangelicalism that seem to be diminishing the church’s life and leading us away from our historic beliefs and practices. On the one hand, we are troubled by the idolatry of personal consumerism and the politicization of faith; on the other hand, we are distressed by the unchallenged acceptance of theological and moral relativism.”
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In other words, we love our brothers and sisters in The Lord, but we're not too sure about the Republican and Democratic ones?
Works for me.
Works for me too.
Is this a "pox on both your houses" attack at the Religious Right and Left, or rather a genuine calling to retreat from the worldly and focus on the heavenly? (Some of us who grew up outside the evangelical tradition can't always tell from the language ...)
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