Churchless evangelicals are a bad trend for Christians and for America | Adam Carrington
C.S. Lewis discussed how the word “gentleman” had evolved in meaning. It had gone from describing a set of facts about a person to a shorthand for complimenting him as a good person. Lewis feared the word “” might make the same linguistic journey. The term would go from describing a fact about a person in relation to God to marking them as a good person in the minds of others.
Christians should take pause at these findings. They display a disordered relationship within many persons’ souls regarding the shaping of their identity. One’s identity usually combines a number of affiliations that include family, geography, athletic teams, and, of course, political and religious beliefs. Christianity claims primary and ordering status among these identities. No relationship occupies a more central or eternal place than our relationship with God in Jesus Christ. St.
However, Burge’s research points to an inverse relationship. Too many see their religious beliefs as an application of their cultural or political values. They identify as a Republican or as conservative with a set of principles and lifestyles attending that alignment. They then see “evangelical” as another way to describe the same set of values, importing the meaning of the other terms into this one.
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