Since the election and the obvious shift away from more conservative cultural positions, I have been contemplating how the church had failed to truly influence the world in which we live. I have identified 12 ways that the evangelical has failed and should be viewed as a punch to work on in the next ten years!
1) The abandonment of the cities
2) The ignoring of eschatology
3) The contextualization of the gospel
4) The avoidance of community service as being a “social gospel”
5) The absence in the public school
6) The uneducated in dealing with non-moral issues
7) The allowing of unchecked post-modern thinking
8) The lack of prayer on the issues
9) The foolish hopes of a theocracy
10) The failure to engage in local politics
11) The acceptance of tax money through faith-base initiatives
12) The overused emotional driven debate style which never persuades anyone