2005
What is an Evangelical
From http://richardkew.blogspot.com/2005/02/what-is-evangelical.html comes an amazing description of what “evangelical” means. Some quotes
- I believe the essence of evangelicalism is to do with the authority that is given to Scripture within the continuum of the church’s life
- Evangelicals should be Christians who are thoroughly committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every facet of their lives, and this Jesus who they serve is the One who is met in the pages of Scripture, not another who might be imagined up within this particular period of time and social context.
- Evangelicals are people who are very much at home having been invited by Christ into the fellowship and community of the Trinity
- they have an assurance of faith
- True evangelicals believe in a lot more than justification and assurance, they also believe that life is a process of sanctification — being made holy, the reflecting this holiness in word and deed
- Evangelicals are also people of prayer
- evangelicals believe that Jesus Christ will return again with great power and glory to reign eternally
- Evangelicals are at their heart missional