Evangelical Trends

Christianity Is Growing but It Is Shifting

“While Donald Trump has famously declared, ‘I love evangelicals!’ it seems that in return some evangelicals may have ‘lost that loving feeling,’ and the full evidence proves that most of them never had it in the first place.”

9. The rise of the mini-denomination church. 10. Increased pastoral tenure. 11. Rise of alternative ministry placement organizations. 12. Increase in the number of Millennials who are Christians. More…

Ron Luce explains why the global youth ministry is calling it quits.

“The NAE/LifeWay Research definition includes four statements to which respondents would strongly agree in order to be categorized as evangelical:
• The Bible is the highest authority for what I believe.
• It is very important for me personally to encourage non-Christians to trust Jesus Christ as their Savior.
• Jesus Christ’s death on the cross is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of my sin.

Is there life on Mars? Not if you’re a US evangelical

“society and culture have increasingly promoted a full-pronged infantilization of modern man”

“Are the medium and the message really so detached that, no matter how an idea is packaged or presented, its meaning remains the same?” Hipster Christianity, revisited

“[T]the more embedded Millennial Evangelicals are in the Evangelical subculture and the less interaction they have with non-Evangelicals, the more likely they are to demonstrate attitudes diverging from their elders.” CPost

“Do you primarily view the gospel as ‘God, man, Christ, response’ or do you prefer to view the gospel in more narrative form, as ‘Creation, fall, redemption, restoration?’” CT