[Lee N. Field]

I tend to “sway” from evangelical because that is what my former Lutheran Church states it is....which it IS NOT!

"Evangelical" has meant different things at different times and places. Not so far back in our history, it was synonymous with "protestant". Post WWII, it became the name for an ecumenical movement among conservative low church protestants, who didn't want to be seen as grumpy fundamentalists.

See Darryl Hart's Deconstructing Evangelicalism for more on what it's meant over time, and why it's not that useful a category now.

[Cronos]

"Evangelical" has meant different things at different times and places. Not so far back in our history, it was synonymous with "protestant". Post WWII, it became the name for an ecumenical movement among conservative low church protestants, who didn't want to be seen as grumpy fundamentalists.

Correct. I'll just add that this name change only really happened in the Anglophone world. In Germany the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland and in Poland the Ewangelico Augsburgu Zbór are the names for the Lutheran Church