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Are Reformed “Evangelical” or “Evangelicals”? « Heidelblog

My friends who are trying to save evangelicals from themselves are fighting a rear-guard action. If they were doing it from the editorial board of Christianity Today or Wheaton or Fuller Seminary, there might be hope for “the evangelicals” but they aren’t and there isn’t.

Unfortunately true! And, while RSC can cite Carl Henry as one of the good guys who would sit and listen to Van Til's lectures, he is also the one who helped found the modern evangelical movement. The intrinsic weaknesses of the evangelical experiment led to instability almost from the beginning. My seminary (Fuller) took less than two decades to depart from their original stand on biblical authority. Now the alumni office sends out e-mails announcing emergent church events and promoting things that would get me kicked off PB (if I held them).

Most “evangelicals” today can’t tell you the evangel and there’s no consensus on what the Christian life looks like. Asking evangelicals to do evangelism and discipleship is like asking a hospice patient to lift weights. It’s not only fruitless it’s cruel.

Scott has an acid tongue, but a very accurate one. This entire posting is an echo of so many of the complaints I have had and that precipitated my own mid-life theological crisis. I have been a life-long evangelical, trained in evangelical institutions, pastored evangelical churches, and lead an evangelical organization. But, for the life of me, I cannot think of any good answers to Dr. Clark's indictment.

Link? What's this, I have to actually go look for the link? I found it.