Featured How would you define the often used term "Evangelical Christian?"

Some who believes in the Fundamental doctrines of Christianity, but also holds to engaging culture and in to using education and to fight in the scientific arena!

 

One who is a member of a largely autonomous noncatholic local congregation whose focus is on salvation by grace through faith in Christ.

 

While not now the common usage, the term should be understood to be a Christian who practices telling the gospel to others.

 

1. Someone who had had a born again experience.

2. Someone who feels compelled to tell others about their faith.

3. Someone who believes the Bible to be inerrant and the final authority on doctrinal matters.

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Some very good definitions for Evangelical Christian.

Thanks for sharing.

 

The common usage can cover a large area of doctrine I think. I'd say common usage definition would typically be those who are theologically conservative (and politically conservative, in many cases) and believe in evangelism.

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Historically, it was a self-given name to the more conservative portions of mainstream Protestant denominations (think Presbyterians, Methodists, Christian Church, etc.) descendent from the Reformation that affirmed the fundamentals of the faith, yet did not want to be characterized by the excesses and bad reputations of much of the fundamentalist movement of the early 20th century. Therefore, Baptists were not evangelicals since they were products of the Radical Reformation.

Later, Baptists individually declared themselves evangelicals, not knowing and/or not caring about the historical background, to tie themselves to a broader conservative movement for spiritual and/or political reasons.

Pollsters don't care about the history of the term and group non-black, non-Catholic, non-liturgical church-attenders into "evangelical" and see it primarily in political voting-block terms.

 

Hmmm, personally I believe that people like Wesley and George Whitefield to be true Evangelicals.

 

There is a wide cavern from your idea of politically conservative and mine.

 

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America?

 

One article I found on the internet said an Evangelical Christian was "anyone who likes Billy Graham" and later "a white Christian Republican."

The underlying truth is that labels mean what the user means, and therefore can mean very different things.

 

Who is evangelical in that church?

 

I would call that a born again Christian

 

Ahhh, a “White Christian Republican”

 

One who holds to the Cardinal truths of Christianity, and also willing to engage and confront culture and society and engage them on their own turfs, such as other religions, evolution, social lifestyles etc!

 

How so?

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Define politically conservative

 

An Evangelical Christian is one who is born again and spreads the gospel.
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