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.
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
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.
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.
The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.