Are Evangelicals No Longer Evangelizing?
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
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Behind the decline to spread the good news.
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| 0:00.0 | With a |
| 0:05.0 | point look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. According to new data recently shared by Dr. Ryan Burge, the number of people who are currently |
| 0:09.0 | evangelical has now dropped below the number of people who were raised evangelical. |
| 0:13.5 | In other words, more people are leaving evangelicalism than are remaining or becoming |
| 0:17.8 | evangelical. |
| 0:18.8 | This shift started about 15 years ago. |
| 0:20.8 | After all, evangelicalism has always been a growth movement with more people in it than |
| 0:25.2 | were raised in it. In other words, from about 1900 till 2010, evangelicals were living up to their names. |
| 0:31.8 | They were evangelizing. However, between the ex-fangelical movement and the declining regard for Christianity, |
| 0:37.5 | some evangelicals now lack the confidence that they really have what the world needs. |
| 0:42.0 | For others, the good news of the Gospel has been crowded |
| 0:44.5 | out by weeds of doubt and distraction. The Gospel is news and has to be shared and lived with clarity, |
| 0:51.0 | confidence and courage. For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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