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• I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Mindset

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• But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.

  J. I. Packer

  Eye, Would Be, Narrative

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In the decade of the 1980s, a massive and comprehensive study of religion in American life was undertaken by the Gallup organization. The results of the study were as terrifying as they were revealing. Americans, even evangelical Americans, are woefully ignorant of the content of Scripture and even more ignorant of the history of Christianity and classical Christian theology.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Organization, Ignorant

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.11, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Hate, Gay

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• For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

  Marvin Olasky

  Religious, Home, White

  "Christian Right Says Ayn Rand Could Split GOP" by Eric Sapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.

  Dave Hunt

  Hate, Men, Leader

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• God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Home, People

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• I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus.

  Bill Bright

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

  J. I. Packer

  Church, Doctrine, Realizing

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• The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

  Paul Washer

  Catholic, Different, Variation

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• To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Play, Ease

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• This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine - until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist and ... everything is for the happiness of man - and I submit to you that this is unchristian.

  Paris Reidhead

  Jesus, Philosophical, Angel

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• I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking

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• The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

  Albert Mohler

  Culture, Agendas, Preaching

  R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (2008). “He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World”, p.51, Moody Publishers

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• The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Watches, Looks

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• I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.

  Gordon Gee

  Crazy, Odd, Bits

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• The work of God in salvation is a supernatural work, but in the United States of America and among Baptists it's been reduced down to a few evangelical hoops that if we can get someone to jump through, we declare them popishly to be savedit has been the pulpit that's sending more people to Hell than any liberal organization on the face of the earthnot a liberal Methodist, not a liberal Episcopalian, but a Baptist who claims to know God's word and yet does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Organization, America

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• Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Years, Effort

  Tullian Tchividjian (2009). “Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different”, p.66, Multnomah

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• I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

  Paul Stanley

  Kids, Weekend, Night

  "Q&A: Kiss' Paul Stanley on New Album 'Monster' and Defining Rock & Roll". Interview with Steve Appleford, www.rollingstone.com. October 09, 2012.

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

  Joel Osteen

  White, People, Judging

  "The Gospel According to Joel Osteen: God Wants You to Be Happy" by Ely Brown and Edward Lovett, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2011.

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• The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

  Alistair Begg

  Taken, Confusion, Church

  Alistair Begg (2009). “The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances”, p.120, Moody Publishers

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• I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mistake, Omission, Opposites

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