+- +-

+- User

Welcome, Guest.
Please login or register.
 
 
 

Login with your social network

Forgot your password?

+-Stats ezBlock

Members
Total Members: 114
Latest: Hazard
New This Month: 0
New This Week: 0
New Today: 0
Stats
Total Posts: 32986
Total Topics: 1301
Most Online Today: 81
Most Online Ever: 46271
(March 28, 2021, 08:01:47 pm)
Users Online
Members: 0
Guests: 130
Total: 130

Author Topic: The fearless evangelist  (Read 7322 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

patrick jane

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Administrator
  • Newbie
  • *****
  • Posts: 24384
  • Karma: +1010/-0
  • Research Jesus Christ - Research Flat Earth
  • Location: Homeless in God's Flat Earth
  • Referrals: 48
    • Theology Forums

  • Total Badges: 39
    Badges: (View All)
    Fifth year Anniversary
Re: The fearless evangelist
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2020, 08:17:51 am »

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/october-web-only/evangelicalism-politics-witness-repentance-renewal.html









Evangelical Witness Is Compromised. We Need Repentance and Renewal.



The National Evangelical Association calls Christians to affirm their moral leadership.


Polarization is like powerful magnets placed throughout our ideological spectrum. They pull us apart and clump us into tribes. We have a hard time breaking away from the magnetic security of being with like-minded people, who reinforce our like-mindedness. Efforts to move toward others must labor against that pull.

For this reason, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and World Relief have published a short sign-on statement of repentance, renewal, and resolve. It is based on the 2004 NAE document For the Health of the Nation, an evangelical call to civic responsibility and a guide for public leadership.

The statement focuses on eight broad issues of moral importance that are rooted in biblical convictions: protecting religious freedom, safeguarding the sanctity of life, strengthening families, seeking justice for the poor and vulnerable, preserving human rights, pursuing racial justice, restraining violence, and caring for God’s creation.

These issues do not exhaust the concerns of faith or government, but they illustrate a breadth of commitments in which evangelicals can engage in common action.

We are in a season in which the evangelical faith is being narrowly defined and misunderstood by many, with long-term ramifications for our gospel witness. We seek to present a thoughtful, humble, biblically grounded statement of our identity that we pray will function as a light shining on a hill to a watching world, to the glory of our Father in heaven (Matt. 5:14–16).

These biblical values unite us across denominational, geographic, ethnic, and partisan divides. Too many, especially young people and people of color, have been alienated by the evangelical Christianity they have seen presented in public in recent years, and they may rightly wonder if there is a home for them in evangelicalism. We have an opportunity to reaffirm with conviction and clarity that our tradition is rooted in fidelity to Christ and his kingdom values.

In rallying around these principles, we will also show those outside the church that evangelicalism is not defined by politics. Rather, we are motivated by love for God and our neighbor.

We invite Christians to join us in affirming this statement. Now is the time to promote faithful, evangelical, civic engagement and a biblically balanced agenda as we seek to commit to the biblical call to act justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.








Walter Kim is president of the National Association of Evangelicals.

Speaking Out is Christianity Today’s guest opinion column and (unlike an editorial) does not necessarily represent the opinion of the publication.

 

+-Recent Topics

Pre-Conception Existence - an intro by patrick jane
February 10, 2024, 07:42:15 am

Best Of | Tattooed Theist Ministry by patrick jane
February 06, 2024, 08:58:08 pm

Corinth by patrick jane
February 06, 2024, 08:56:41 pm

Prayer Forum by patrick jane
September 06, 2023, 08:10:29 am

Robert Sepehr Scientist by patrick jane
September 06, 2023, 08:04:18 am

Lion Of Judah by patrick jane
September 06, 2023, 07:23:59 am

Scriptures - Verse Of The Day and Discussion by patrick jane
August 23, 2023, 05:15:09 am

The Underworld by patrick jane
June 06, 2023, 07:01:04 am

Your Favorite Music, Images and Memes by patrick jane
June 06, 2023, 03:36:53 am

Did Jesus Die on a Friday - Comments by rstrats
April 23, 2023, 01:39:22 pm

ROBERT SEPEHR - ANTHROPOLOGY - Myths and Mythology by patrick jane
April 23, 2023, 09:08:00 am

The Greatest Sermons by patrick jane
April 16, 2023, 04:27:45 am

Who am I? | Tattooed Theist (Channel Trailer) by patrick jane
April 13, 2023, 09:31:23 pm

Biblical Flat Earth and Cosmos by patrick jane
April 13, 2023, 05:18:58 am

Common Figure of Speech/Colloquial Language? by rstrats
April 06, 2023, 02:57:38 pm

Jon Rappoport On The "Vaccine" by bernardpyron
December 11, 2022, 11:43:44 am

Mark & La Shonda Songwriting by guest131
November 20, 2022, 10:35:08 pm

Christ Is Able To Transform Individuals, Bernard Pyron by bernardpyron
November 13, 2022, 12:36:04 am