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To: therut
I have never understood the term “evangelical” Christian. Aren’t all Christians called by the great commission to be evangelical? I think it is used as a slur.

No, it's not a slur. All Christians are not evangelicals. There are mainline churches, there are Catholic and orthodox churches, then there are evangelicals.

Definition: belonging to or designating the Christian churches that emphasize the teachings and authority of the Scriptures, especially of the New Testament, in opposition to the institutional authority of the church itself, and that stress as paramount the tenet that salvation is achieved by personal conversion to faith in the atonement of Christ.

16 posted on 11/08/2012 7:39:13 PM PST by madison10
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To: madison10
2 Timothy 4:5 pretty much calls all Christians to be evangelists. Everybody. Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, 3 guys with M-16s kneeling in a grove for a moment of prayer. Everybody.

That's my reading, anyway.

If I'm wrong, God will 'splain me. I imagine that's pretty far down on my list of 'of sh--' stuff, though.

/johnny

17 posted on 11/08/2012 8:02:27 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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