The coming evangelical collapse #8

The coming evangelical collapse #8

Michael Spencer, in The Coming Evangelical Collapse, remains hopeful:

Despite all of these challenges, it is impossible not to be hopeful. As one commenter has already said, “Christianity loves a crumbling empire.”

We can rejoice that in the ruins, new forms of Christian vitality and ministry will be born. I expect to see a vital and growing house church movement. This cannot help but be good for an evangelicalism that has made buildings, numbers, and paid staff its drugs for half a century.

We need new evangelicalism that learns from the past and listens more carefully to what God says about being His people in the midst of a powerful, idolatrous culture.

I’m not a prophet. My view of evangelicalism is not authoritative or infallible. I am certainly wrong in some of these predictions. But is there anyone who is observing evangelicalism in these times who does not sense that the future of our movement holds many dangers and much potential?

If you are interested in these issues, follow Mr. Spencer’s blog, Internet Monk. (He is advertising Lutheran products: New Reformation Press; The Treasure of Daily Prayer!)

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