I’m sorry, but when you have groups like the Episcopalians, who OFFICIALLY VOTED to demand that congregations hire active homosexuals and cross-dressers for pastors, deacons and staff—there IS a conservative/liberal divide between mainline denominations and evangelicals.
Say what you will about the PENTACOSTALS/CHARISMATICS like Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson or Joel Osteen, (which is a different subset of the almost now meaningless word “evangelical”), but they don’t tolerate and approve of SODOMY, as the mainline Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Church of Christ, and (almost) the Methodists do...
To bring in Englishman NT Wright—whose country does not have full free-exercise of religion like the USA (and hence does NOT have the multitude of denominations...and therefore what, 90% of all Protestants there are Anglican?) just muddies the water. Wright while conservative theologically...is actually (barely) Protestant...since he denies the classic Protestant doctrine of substitutionary atonement...
The fact of the matter is the word “evangelical” because it is applied to all socially conservative Protestants NOT a part of the mainline churches, has become so broad as to become useless.
That does NOT mean however, to be a part of mainline denominations—whose organizations actively support sodomy, abortion, and, anti-Semitism (in the guise of “anti-Zionism” (anti-Israel)) is acceptable for bible-believing Christians...even though “evangelical” is an increasingly worn out word.
That does NOT mean however, to be a part of mainline denominations—whose organizations actively support sodomy, abortion, and, anti-Semitism (in the guise of “anti-Zionism” (anti-Israel)) is acceptable for bible-believing Christians....
Can you point me to an evangelical-wide, accepted definition of "evangelical"? Can you point me to the evangelical-wide, accepted creedal statement that addresses the sins of sodomy, abortion, and anti-Semitism?
Can you point me to the evangelical-wide excommunications of individuals who have commited sins against this group-wide statement, or acted contrary to the definition of "evangelical", or been part of a "Protestant" church?
"In 1648, the first printing of the Larger and Shorter Catechisms of the Westminster Assembly were made available for distribution and sale in England and Scotland. They remain the clearest expressions of Reformed Protestantism ever formulated..."- May 13, This Week in Religion History