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Future of Evangelical Christianity in the US

Interesting read. I don't doubt his trends are right - but will it go this far? What impact will that have on us (patriarchal believers)?
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Hopefully, it will impact "patriarchal believers" in a positive way; however, I feel this will effect the church I belong too in a negative way. Actually, I have been thinking for quite some that I would like to find a church that operates the way Christ intended. I guess I haven't really been in a church where the community of believers really "break bread together, study and pray together" like the apostle's and their families.

This part of the article is so true from my personal observation: "Ironically, the billions of dollars we've spent on youth ministers, Christian music, publishing, and media has produced a culture of young Christians who know next to nothing about their own faith except how they feel about it". Also, the declining Christian school system from Catholic to Lutheran in my downriver area is insane. We lost the K-8th program in the church that I work for, and in the last five years, 10 Christian schools in my community (these are the ones I'm aware of) closed.

I wonder, if this article comes true, what will be the new movement?

Michelle
 
Nathan,

Great minds think alike....I saw this same article and was just getting ready to post it to BF, when I saw you already started a thread!

I think that we are already beginning to see some of these things happening now. The Evangelical movement is already fragmenting, as there is no standard 'theme' that defines them (it certainly is NOT evangelism!) Evangelicals made a big mistake by hitching their wagon to a political star of conservative politics, IMO.

The church goes through cycles such as this even few generations. What will arise will be new dynamic movements with a greater emphasis on spirituality, and knowing the Word.

Blessings,
 
Most of this was, IMHO, right on. particularly with respect to the 'prosperity gospel megachurches' and what I would call the Stony Ground Gospel: no Scriptural roots allowed.

Evangelicalism doesn't need a bailout. Much of it needs a funeral...
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He's right. Let the dead bury their dead.

Where I might add that something was left out was in the area of the State-Approved Church (i.e., Caesar's 501(c)3 Creature), and what goes with it. He correctly noted that
...massive majorities of Evangelicals can't articulate the Gospel with any coherence...
and
...Evangelicals have failed to pass on to our young people an orthodox form of faith that can take root and survive the secular onslaught...
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but I contend that there is a bigger reason than the author suggests:

such a faith cannot survive the 'secular onslaught' because it is INCONSISTENT with Scripture -- it has a "form of godliness but denies the power thereof," and has replaced God's commandments with man's [paganized] traditions.

What God actually WROTE about marriage is an obvious example; how can people who argue with idiotic sincerety that "if we ALLOW homosexual marriage, why, even POLYGAMY may be next!" claim to have a Biblically-consistent message? Or how can one accept government's authority to rewrite God's Law, take Caesar's license, and then object when Caesar takes the next logical steps?

Ultimately, I guess the author is on the right track, but stops short of what God has already revealed. "Come out of her, My people," didn't seem like a mere suggestion to me...


Blessings,

Mark
 
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