Hi Billy, On Feb 9, 2013, at 7:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Evangelicals appear to be headed for some kind of marginalization, and this > will hurt. Nevertheless, evangelical Christianity began on the margins of > society and only in fairly recent decades moved into the mainstream. As it > turns out, our cultural influence may wane and our options for recovering > that influence may be both few and ineffectual. > > Thrown back to a posture of working from the margins, evangelical Christians > will find themselves in familiar territory. Our task will be to bear witness > to the truth, to tell the Good News about Jesus Christ, to be faithful in our > marriages, to raise our children and to reach out to a world filled with > people --gay and straight -- who desperately need our message of God’s > redeeming love. We don’t need a slot on the inaugural platform in order to be > faithful to Christ. >
Actually, I think our cultural influence will increase once we give up on recovering political influence and start to regain moral authority by actually, y'know, loving people and living out the gospel. Yes, it will hurt, but it will be a good hurt… -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
