What is that term describe? Is it a movement that's contrary to the way of Jesus

presented in the Bible? Has evangelical faith become too politicized.

How should we understand Jesus saying that my kingdom is not of this world?

A joint Sean and I as we discuss these provocative, really pressing questions that are brought to focus for us in a new book by a

New Testament scholar, Constantine Campbell, in his book Jesus versus Evangelicals.

Sean, let me give a little background on the author to this and what I think his purpose is for writing this

Constant Campbell is a native Australian who has spent a lot of time in the US. He was a New Testament faculty member at Trinity

Evangelical at any school for many years, but has recently gone back to Australia.

He left his teaching position at Trinity, going back to Australia, and by the tone of the book has apparently become quite disillusioned with the expression of evangelical faith that he found particularly in the United States when he was here that I think is the the primary emphasis of his book I think his audience and his purpose is to point out areas where he thinks that the practice of American

evangelical faith is contrary to how he reads the New Testament

as laying out the way of Jesus.

Yeah, that's well said.

When I see this, I have a few thoughts.

Number one, it says Jesus versus Evangelicals, I can't help but get a little bit defensive

because I'm an evangelical. These are my people and also

there's been a lot of books recently kind of beating up on evangelical so to speak.

Now whether we deserve it or not, we will get to that,

but his perspective as an Australian

is particularly interesting to me

because he's an insider as an

evangelical but an outsider and he's talking about evangelicalism

broader than just in America but it kind of says this seems to be the heart of

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