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young pastors: why mess with evolution at all?
Like many of you, I’d just as soon replace the word, “evangelical” with something else. Not because it isn’t a perfectly fine word, but for the response it evokes, thanks to the culture war tactics of so many American evangelicals in the last thirty years. But the fact is, labels are difficult to shed, and the labeled are not consulted about their moniker preferences. (My parents didn’t seek my permission to name me and “Christians” were so named by the people of Antioch who were not believers.) And I wonder if the hand of God isn’t behind this label’s stickiness. Like God himself may be holding it in place on us until we understand what it means.
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