The Coming Evangelical Collapse?

InternetMonk.com expounds for 1,500 words on a possibly very bleak future for Christians.  The piece in the Christian Science Monitor describes how America will look when it goes from post-christian to anti-christian.  Interestingly, he does not point fingers at the secular world for this change, but instead points the finger of blame squarely back at Christians.

He makes a great point that some/most Christians have worked harder at moral/social/political causes than they have at growing their faiths and understanding the basic tenets of their gospel faith that they follow.  This leads to a type of spiritual bankruptcy that turns people away from Christianity as well as makes the faithful look hypocritical.

“The evangelical investment in moral, social and political issues has depleted our resources and exposed our weakness.  Being against gay marriage and being rhetorically pro-life will not make up for the fact that massive majorities of Evangelicals can’t articulate the Gospel with any coherence.  We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more than a faith.”

Read the whole thing here.

~ by 210m on March 9, 2009.