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Hello, I've recently joined the puritanboard, I'm grateful for all I've learned from your threads.
I'm curious about your opinions on whether mainstream evangelicalism has the gospel. In other words, are we brothers and sisters with them, or should we firmly draw a line and separate from them on the grounds of Galatians 1:9, that they have another gospel?
I'm not sure if "mainstream evangelicalism" is the best term, and I'm having a hard time defining what I mean exactly, but just the overall general spirit of the age, emotionalism, entertainment, shallowness, "fun church", man-centered self help preaching, using natural means to attract unbelievers (like drawing them to church with the "worship experience", entertainment, concert style music, big screens), and so on. Groups like hillsong, for example.
I'm still not sure if that's a clear definition because of how undefined evangelicalism is today, but I hope you get what I mean.
Do these people have the gospel or are they to be called out and separated from?
I'm curious about your opinions on whether mainstream evangelicalism has the gospel. In other words, are we brothers and sisters with them, or should we firmly draw a line and separate from them on the grounds of Galatians 1:9, that they have another gospel?
I'm not sure if "mainstream evangelicalism" is the best term, and I'm having a hard time defining what I mean exactly, but just the overall general spirit of the age, emotionalism, entertainment, shallowness, "fun church", man-centered self help preaching, using natural means to attract unbelievers (like drawing them to church with the "worship experience", entertainment, concert style music, big screens), and so on. Groups like hillsong, for example.
I'm still not sure if that's a clear definition because of how undefined evangelicalism is today, but I hope you get what I mean.
Do these people have the gospel or are they to be called out and separated from?