Muslim converts breathe new life into Europe’s struggling Christian churches

This is how we take lemons and make lemonade. We couldn’t go to their countries to convert them without being jailed and killed. Here we can preach Jesus Christ to them. Converted they are just like us. They have The Holy Spirit and with The Word of God and Him they will be taught all things. Praise The LORD!!! Let’s, with God’s Word, Spirit and power bring them to Christ. This will take prayer, effort and courage, but as true and faith filled Christians we can do it!

Protestantism and Evangelicalism are closely related, and somewhat overlapping terms. Many people distinguish them this way:

Protestant Churches are the ones which sprang directly from the Reformation movements of 16th-17th century Europe "Protesting" Catholicism. That would be the ones also called "Mainline" Protestant, or the so-called Seven Sisters of American Protestantism—the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), the Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Churches, the United Church of Christ, and the Disciples of Christ.
Evangelical Churches did not spring historically from the 16th century, but were later offshoots of those churches (many, 19th century), or trace their historic development outside of the "Reformation Era" context altogether. That would be pretty much everybody else: Non-denominationals, "community Christian fellowships," those which call themselves fundamental or Bible churches, Evangelical charismatics, etc.

But this isn't a hard-and-fast thing. There's a lot splitting and reuniting, merging and emerging, interaction and overlap.

Thank you.

Because evangelicalism is a spiritual movement and not a sect of Protestantism, it follows different “rules,” or rather an absence of rules.

I see it as a natural growth from out of the English Puritans. After all, it pretty much took root here more than anywhere else. They were the spiritual founders of our country, and we are still more English and Puritan than anything else, no matter where our ancestors came from. England is so much more libertine in many ways than we are because all the Puritans came here.

I went to an Easter Service at an “Evangelical Lutheran” church a couple of months ago, and no one reached out to me at all at the reception afterwards; even though I approached several people I could not make a connection with anyone. They were lacking affect, the psychologists would say. They were more interested in talking with people they knew, eating and drinking, and congratulating themselves on the concert/service.

I’m sorry but that is not evangelical.

At my church they would have been in your life immediately, with extraordinary warmth and welcome. That’s why it truly is an evangelical church.

Many people are surprised that it is spelled with a lower-case “e.” If I mention that Billy Graham is a Baptist, they say, “No he’s an Evangelical.”

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