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

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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

I couldn't get 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 believed

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, the Bible

is not a Bible.

For example, some of the questions were as follows.

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