The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to you.

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John MacArthur.

I couldn't get it out of my mind that a couple of weeks ago there was a survey of

evangelicals and it was called the State of Theology.

You can find it on the Ligonier website.

And people were basically defined as evangelicals if they believed the Bible, if they believe

Jesus, and if they believed the gospel, and if they felt they were responsible to communicate

the gospel to other people, those four things.

So if you were a Bible believer and a gospel believer in Christ and you felt responsible to

proclaim that, you were considered an evangelical.

Interestingly enough, the survey indicated that evangelicals have absolutely no idea what they

believe, many of them.

In stark contrast to Puritans and other responsible believers. For example, some of the questions were as follows.

Everyone is born innocent, agree or disagree. 65% of evangelicals agreed. Everyone is born innocent. A second question. The Bible is not literally

true, agree or disagree. Fifty-five percent of evangelicals agreed. The Bible is not literally

true. Another one, God accepts worship from all religions.

56% of evangelicals agreed.

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