No Longer Evangelical?
I got a Bible! I am having an identity crisis. For almost my entire adult life I have self identified as an evangelical Christian. But, my identity has been hijacked. Evangelical Christianity has been severed from its roots in the gospel and has been replanted amidst very confusing political soil. And I don't know who I am anymore. This dilemma traces its origins back several decades. In the 1980's progressive Christian Tony Campolo was loudly declaring that evangelicals in America no longer believed in the Jesus of the gospels, but instead they had transformed him into a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Republican. And THAT Jesus is impotent to do anything for us. (Because he is a figment of our imagination). Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention has renounced the label and now calls himself a Gospel Christian. Evangelical traces its roots to the word evangel - which in turn traces its root to the Greek word euangelion - which means "good news&quo