The Emerging “eXvangelical” Church

Who Are the #eXvangelicals?

Ironically, similar to evangelicals the eXvangelical is an amorphous term.

I say this because progressivism is more of a group of people than it is a solidified set of beliefs.

Mainly because progressivism is amorphous; much like evangelicalism, refusing to be defined, or rather, confined, by any solidified definition. The root of this word “progress” is in and of itself a word dependent on the fluidity of culture.

Where culture is, progression goes ahead of.

You see, Christianity, it’s not going anywhere… I’m going to go out on a ledge here and say that “the nones” aren’t becoming atheists so much as they’re fed up with modern-day Christians.

To be uncomfortably clear in what I’m saying here:

It’s not that we don’t believe in God or that we’ve “lost faith in Jesus”… it’s that we don’t believe in your God and have come to find your [white version of] Jesus to be nothing but a sham.

Just because we’ve left our parents institutions doesn’t mean that we’re not still part of the Church.

People wonder why Hillsong NYC is thriving while “those other” [aforementioned] denominations are shrinking…

Here’s the plot twist of the century:

A common misconception about Jesus is that he one day drew a line in the sand, separating Himself from the Pharisaical… “Biblically speaking,” Jesus didn’t draw a line in the sand… it reads, in John 8:6, that “He [Jesus] bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground…”

What Jesus wrote we’ll never know, for sure; but, what we do know is that it was enough to disperse of this woman’s detractors and to make her feel loved regardless of her “shortcomings”.

This is important to know because there is no line. The point Jesus was trying to make was that we’re all equal, on the same team, and therefore “who are we to cast the first stone?”

eXvangelicals or Evangelicals, progressives or conservatives, protestant or Catholic… we’re all one and the same; forming and reforming the one thing we all have in common, but can’t seem to agree on, Church.