I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.
Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.
It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites.
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.
Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.