The two are closer than separate as regards their member overall liberal. And while we evangelicals continues our own decline overall, it remains the most conservative religious bloc, and outside cults, the more evangelistic.
By denomination, 61% of the those associated with an Assemblies of God church said they had shared their faith at least once during the past year, as did 61% of those who attend a Pentecostal/Foursquare church, and ending 14% among Episcopalians and just 10% among Roman Catholics. http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/54
52% of Evangelical Christians have had a meaningful discussion about their faith with a non-Christian during the past month. 28% of other Protestants and 18% of Catholics also have held such a discussion. ^
68% of Evangelical Christians attend a regular Bible Study or participate in some other small-group activity. 47% of other Protestants take part in small groups related to their faith, along with 24% of Catholics. ^
The highest percentage of those who strongly agree they have a personal responsibility to share their faith was found among believers in Pentecostal/Foursquare churches (73%) http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/53
Sounds like an indictment, a trial and a verdict that declares everyone guilty.
All that’s missing is the sentence.
IMHO
....Yet still there are those who are Protestants that still come this upcoming Easter Sunday Eve will be fully received into the Church.
A stinging indictment against the “prosperity gospel.”
“There are plenty of private Christian schools in the United States set up by Protestants. But many, if not most, of them were created for Christians to escape government-run secular schools.”
The Christian school my children attended is like the public school I attended, and that my parents attended. It honors God first, then country and founding fathers and attempts to teach children basic learning and skills. That is a much better model than run away government schools that allow ‘anything goes’. Thank God for those who stood firm 40 and 50 years ago for God first. The Romeike family of Germany is an example of love for God and their children. They are accused by Germany of promoting a ‘parallel society’. How are 8,10,and 12 year old children going to stand against the worldly onslaught by curriculums, administrators, and teachers when studies show that many Christian adults 18-22 lose their faith in their college years. It is love for children and their developing faith that propels Christian schools.
I do agree though, some of the ‘mission trips’ are less than evangelical.
Wow! What a blatant, self aggrandizing attempt discredit what anyone other than the Catholic Church does. The only sentence in that piece that is missing is Pharisaical “thank God we are not like them”
** “go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”**
BTTT — Straight from the Bible for all of us.
That might be the broadest brush with which Erick Erickson has ever painted.
I’d love to hear Mr. Erickson’s testimony before he mouths off about evangelicals, either individually or as a group.
So true.
And Gov't intervention has screwed even THAT up!