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Kevin Swanson and Bill Jack talked about an article written by Josiah Hesse in the UK’s Guardian regarding a new term, Exvangelical. Swanson and Jack then go into the life of Nicolaus Zinzendorf and what the term of Evangelical really means. There is no shame in the term Evangelical. It is about repenting and giving your life to Jesus Christ and living out for Jesus, and reaching people with his Gospel. The trouble is the word Evangelical is guilty by associating itself with the politics of the Republican party…at least here in America. Swanson also points out a clear difference between fundamentalists and evangelicals. Terms that were blurred over the years, no thanks to our progressive media trying to advance their own agenda. However, the terms were also blurred by the so-called leaders of the Christian faith themselves.
Jack talked how he is in the minority of those who believe in a literal seven-day creation, and how many sincere Christians have taken a belief in the more progressive belief of evolution just because “science” said so. Sadly, science has been used to destroy Christianity and raise up the progressive worldview.
Swanson is also a big advocate of congregational singing, and while there is a strong Biblical teaching of the Word of God, he feels that the Holy Spirit has left many of these churches. He points to Ephesians 5:17-21 regarding the command of congregational singing. Believe it or not, it was the Catholic Church that tried to move away from congregational singing before Martin Luther made his famous protests.
There is way too much emotion in today’s so-called contemporary services that have gone the way of mediocre ‘worshiptainment.’ Swanson feels that the biggest reason why so many people left the faith is because the Holy Spirit has left many churches and mission fields.
I might add the biggest danger was not keeping Contemporary Christian Music as a form of personal entertainment and personal worship. Instead, we made it into an industry. Industries ussally have a way of corrupting what God intended. It is movements that move God’s Work and the Holy Spirit.
References
Exvangelical – Leaving Evangelicalism
Do we really want to be called “evangelicals?” The term is increasingly nebulous, although it was supposed to distinguish “true” Christians from liberals. We look at the history of the term, and the morphing of it through the centuries. Then, we take a look at the hyped up, modern worship service where almost nobody is singing anymore. What ever happened to congregational singing? More importantly, has the Holy Spirit departed from the evangelical church? Is this Ichabod?
‘Exvangelicals’: why more religious people are rejecting the evangelical label
“I don’t identify myself with that term any more,” Boz Tchividjian said recently. He was talking about being “evangelical”, the movement his grandfather, the Rev Billy Graham, helped popularize in America. “Words matter,” Tchividjian said, “and ‘evangelical’ isn’t like Baptist or Episcopalian, which can be clearly defined. The minute you use that term to someone,, “you’re defined by how they interpret it.”
Tchividjian is among a growing number of religious people and groups in America who have stopped identifying as evangelicals in order to distance themselves from the more extreme elements of Christian society, while remaining true to their principles.
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