The fact is that there are good evangelical churches and bad evangelical churches. As with the Presbyterian and Episcopalian Churches, the ones that are getting all the attention are the bad ones.
Seems to me that Evangelical Church bashing has become as big a fad to some Christians as the Purpose Driven programs have become to others.
No need to speculate on that anymore. They're all on their way out. It won't be long before Presbyterian becomes a Synonym for Shaker.
Exactly PM, Johnson lumps all Evangelicals into the same offering basket. It's just not that simple.
Terabitten's remarks above about the AOG are dramatically different from my experience with that denomination in the last 10 years. But, the AOG varies dramtically from congregation to congregation.
All that said, Johnson loses some credibility points by trying to write a serious article and then posting that photoshopped picture of Jan Crouch.
How Reuter-ish of him...
Couldn't agree more. Rewind to this past Christmas. As I recall, 99.999999999% of churches held service on Christmas day. Four churches (maybe 5) decided not to. So, which story got headlines, sermons and about 25 FR threads? Right. "Evangelicals are anti-Christmas!!"
***You know your mainline Presbyterian churches aren't doing too well these days either.***
It is Presbyterian in name only. There are ample threads around here that are pointing out the problems with that church, and you will find my thoughts on those threads as well.
The bottom line here is are you serving a particular denomination and willing to defend it at all costs, or is your worldview based on Scripture? Can you stand back and say my church is doing x, y, or z wrong?