What Abandoning Evangelicalism Does And Does Not Look Like
Zack Hunt put into words what I have done without knowing what I did: What Abandoning Evangelicalism Does And Does Not Look Like In the wake of the epic World Vision fiasco last week I wrote a post calling for the abandonment of evangeli calism in favor of “new wineskins.” That call wasn’t an impulsive reaction. It was the continuation of something I began talking about two years ago and others began calling for many years before that. Last week’s disaster only reinforced my conviction that evangelicalism is a culture/mindset/structure that needs to be left on the ash heap of history. I am convinced this is necessary because I believe evangelicalism is a structure built around core values that are either deeply problematic and/or altogether antithetical to the gospel. Among them – a dangerously high view of Scripture that transform the Bible into a weapon to be wielded rather than good news to be shared; a radical personalization and internalization of the faith that makes th...