The Coming Evangelical Collapse: Are You Buying It?
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Wed, March 11, 2009
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What will be left? Spencer says, among other things: Expect evangelicalism to look more like the pragmatic, therapeutic, church-growth oriented megachurches that have defined success. Emphasis will shift from doctrine to relevance, motivation, and personal success – resulting in churches further compromised and weakened in their ability to pass on the faith.
Read the whole article here. Then tell me what you think… Spot on or way off?
Todd
Michael Spencer (The Internet Monk) has created a ton of controversy with his recent article (featured in the Christian Science Monitor and at the Drudge Report) on the coming evangelical collapse. I wonder... are you buying his rationale? Here are his major points:
1. Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism.
2. We Evangelicals have failed to pass on to our young people an orthodox form of faith that can take root and survive the secular onslaught.
3. There are three kinds of evangelical churches today: consumer-driven megachurches, dying churches, and new churches whose future is fragile.
4. Despite some very successful developments in the past 25 years, Christian education has not produced a product that can withstand the rising tide of secularism.
5. The confrontation between cultural secularism and the faith at the core of evangelical efforts to "do good" is rapidly approaching.
6. Even in areas where Evangelicals imagine themselves strong (like the Bible Belt), we will find a great inability to pass on to our children a vital evangelical confidence in the Bible and the importance of the faith.
7. The money will dry up...
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