http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheForgottenWays/~3/296899443/
I like this document; It describes exactly why I can, and do, self-identify as an Evangelical. Some of the points in the manifesto. It can be downloaded, along with a study guide here.
- First, to be Evangelical is to hold a belief that is also a devotion
- Second, Evangelical belief and devotion is expressed as much in our worship and in our deeds as in our creed
- Third, Evangelicals are followers of Jesus in a way that is not limited to certain churches or contained by a definable movement.
- Fourth, as stressed above, Evangelicalism must be defined theologically and not politically; confessionally and not culturally.
- Fifth, the Evangelical message, “good news” by definition, is overwhelmingly positive, and always positive before it is negative
- Sixth, Evangelicalism should be distinguished from two opposite tendencies to which Protestantism has been prone: liberal revisionism and conservative fundamentalism.
- Seventh, Evangelicalism is distinctive for the way it looks equally to both the past and the future.
