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an evangelical form of Christianity – in which the experience of conversion, rather than baptism, came to be regarded as the way in which a person is ‘born again’ in Christ – gradually became one of the dominant forms of American Protestantism.

Among prominent evidentialists are the author of this article; Gary Habermas; and the many advocates of the “Intelligent Design” movement (the most important being William Dembski).

If your church is a stable, older church, are you engaged in planting new churches in your area? Are you not only willing but also planning to give money and people to that end? If your church seems unable to make this pivot, might it be better to bless a young church plant by bringing them into your established facility to worship when your church

IT WAS 1971. I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior fresh into a brand new experience of faith. I was also full of zeal for evangelism but clueless about how to evangelize other than just telling my friends about what I was so passionate about — God, Jesus, the Bible, salvation, and the rapture.

timeline of Evangelical Gnosticism,

The keys to addressing the Great Dechurching will be whether churchgoing people will be willing to seek understanding, relate with wisdom, build healthier institutions, embrace our exilic nature, and seek a gospel that is true, good, and beautiful.

Believers are “new creation[s]” commissioned with the “ministry of reconciliation,” sent forth as “Christ’s ambassadors”