1. Evangelicals by and large did not waver or wither under the weight of collaborationist/accomodationist calls for “peace in our time” but continued to pour on the public and private heat.
2. Most evangelicals recognized the truth that an organization purporting to be Christian cannot pretend to be neutral on marriage and remain Christian. Neutrality is surrender.
3. Most evangelicals understood the concept that the apostle John articulates in his second letter: to accept/receive those teachers/leaders who defy scripture, is to legitimize the defiance and participate in it.
4. Those who have sought – in the name of “social justice” – to shift the imperative of the Gospel from the “salvation of sinners” to “food for the poor” and, worse, drive a wedge between the two, lost. They must continue to lose. If we obscure God’s word about sin and salvation in order to serve the poor, we feed physical bodies at the cost of immortal souls.
5. World Vision heard the outcry, reassessed and changed course. Some have resisted using the word “repentance” here, insisting that money rather than true sorrow over sin motivated the turn. I do not think it is right or safe to assess unspoken motives. Until or unless actions prove otherwise, I think it best to accept the apology at face value.
6. Rachel Held Evans is mad (see the RHE Rule)
7. The fault line within western evangelicalism has been publicly exposed. Not everyone who takes the name evangelical agrees on the classical historic principles that have united us in the past. It is always a good thing when reality surfaces. Now we know and we will not, hopefully, be so surprised when the next “evangelical” leader or organization embraces gay “marriage” or abortion or some other faddish novelty.
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