The Evangel Is Timeless. Evangelicalism Is Not.
Because evangelicals have typically thought of themselves simply as Christians (or real Christians), there is a danger they may think of their own faith tradition as somehow timeless. It’s like the parody that imagines a fundamentalist saying, “If the King James Version of the Bible was good enough for the apostle Paul, it is good enough for me.”
So let’s put it bluntly: The gospel of Jesus Christ is timeless, but the evangelical movement is not.
The evangelical movement, as identified by historians and sociologists, is…
