conscientious objectors to the evangelical culture war

Something’s happening in American Evangelicalism. We are waking up from a stupor. We are attempting to fear our founder more than we fear our movement’s group think.  Because He is asserting his proprietary rights over His brand–a brand which has been the subject of trademark infringement for too long.  We are standing up to be counted as  conscientious objectors to the evangelical culture war that has been distracting us from the evangelical mission.
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sola scriptura or sola jesus?

Sola Scriptura is the rallying cry of the Protestant Reformation, but it never rang true for me.  I was never a Lutheran or a Presbyterian.  Forgive me, but I was raised Episcopalian–that middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism–and then went Ayn Randian for a while, then back to Jesus through the Jesus movement, shaped mainly by a Jewish believer who didn’t have a dog in the Catholic-Protestant fight, which was a Gentile brawl.
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political pollution, brothers, that’s what it is

I stumbled into a concern for the environment.  It’s not something I sought out.  It was thrust upon me.  And my interest in this topic is fueled by my concern for the gospel, which has been getting a bad name of late.  For good reason.  Because we pastors have allowed the gospel to become polluted by political ideology. 
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