tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62110932011-04-21T11:02:02.665-07:00The Evangelical Mindby Eric Bergeson (ericberg@gvtel.com)Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-1138891752768102022006-02-02T06:48:00.000-08:002006-02-02T06:49:12.803-08:00BACKUP of EMIND 2--February 2, 2006PERSONAL MORALITY: When Billy Graham heard the Watergate tapes, his response was not shock at Nixon’s contempt for the constitution, but indignation at Nixon’s foul language. Graham’s response was prototypically evangelical. The Constitution? Secular gobbledygook. Foul language by one who passed himself off as an evangelical Christian? That’s scandal!FUNDIES VS Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-1132185386032186272005-11-16T15:55:00.000-08:002005-11-23T11:21:44.560-08:00Outline for Evangelical MindWhat is an evangelical? Culture vs. TheologyWhy no great philosophers or artists in evangelicalism anti-intellectual anti-reality Van Cliburn but there are many evangelical athletes, although their conversions don’t always stick. And there are evangelical politicians. Why no artists? Why no university professors in the humanities? There are plenty in Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-1102657411069749492004-12-09T21:28:00.000-08:002004-12-09T21:43:31.070-08:00WHAT DO EVANGELICALS HAVE IN COMMON, despite their heterogenity? The conversion ritual. The conversion imperative. The sense of shared experience which comes from sharing an initiation. It is the same shared sense which unites a fraternity, or a military unit. Shared initiation is a powerful glue. The sense of shared initiation is what makes evangelicals recognize each other. It is what makes Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-1102656449250480762004-12-09T21:24:00.000-08:002004-12-09T21:27:29.250-08:00THE FAMILY BUSINESS--Evangelicals find it difficult to pass their evangelicalism from generation to generation, except for evangelical missionaries. The calling to the mission field seems hereditary. It is frequently passed on from generation to generation. It is such a peculiar life--living off the donations of the middle class back in this country, and not living all that badly--that once one Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-1071598536382938452003-12-16T10:15:00.000-08:002003-12-16T10:15:50.296-08:00Was listening to Charles Stanley the other day. The title of his sermon: "What the Bible says about Unbelievers." His thrust: No matter how nice your unsaved neighbor, co-worker, spouse, child, may seem--if they have not accepted Jesus Christ as their saviour, they are of the devil and are hell-bound.
To an evangelical, the only reason to be give an unsaved person the time of day is to hope Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-107152463429707392003-12-15T13:43:00.000-08:002003-12-15T13:44:07.586-08:00The basic imperative: The definition of an evangelical is one who believes that one “becomes a Christian” through a conversion experience. That conversion can be public, as in going forward at a Billy Graham crusade; a private contemplative decision; or, a sudden flash of insight as one is stuck in traffic. What distinguishes evangelicals of all stripes from other brands of Christians is their Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17202773886004523484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6211093.post-1071524493245451232003-12-15T13:40:00.000-08:002003-12-15T13:41:46.573-08:00This is a weblog where I will be writing about the Evangelical Mind. I will be posting paragraphs of thoughts as I write them.
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