Reformed Fox
Puritan Board Freshman
Did that thread title throw anyone off guard?
Of course "evangelical" applies to any person or organization which evangelizes. But more broadly the term has come to mean dozens of different things, from a focus on personal conversion, to "conservative", to loyalty to the historic church, to just another adjective that one can apply to oneself. The first thing I think of when I hear the term are those churches focused in being born again. Is anyone else under the impression that, in the United States at least, "evangelical" can mean almost anything to any moderately conservative, or Biblical church?
P.S. I know ow the word ought to be used, but practically speaking there seems to be a lot which is context-dependent.
Of course "evangelical" applies to any person or organization which evangelizes. But more broadly the term has come to mean dozens of different things, from a focus on personal conversion, to "conservative", to loyalty to the historic church, to just another adjective that one can apply to oneself. The first thing I think of when I hear the term are those churches focused in being born again. Is anyone else under the impression that, in the United States at least, "evangelical" can mean almost anything to any moderately conservative, or Biblical church?
P.S. I know ow the word ought to be used, but practically speaking there seems to be a lot which is context-dependent.