Posted on 06/20/2017 10:47:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Matthew 7:16
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!
But this isn't a hard-and-fast thing. There's a lot splitting and reuniting, merging and emerging, interaction and overlap.
Yes but your explaination is the one that has made the most sense...
and also why I always say I’m not an evangelical...I’m a Protestant...Huguenots and Anglicans...
Faux News takes the bait.
Churches in Europe have been dying since the 60’s.
It has only begun here in the USA.
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.”
AMEN.
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