Our Evangelical Cover-Up? (Updated)
Channel: Galen Currah
Date: 2018-01-08

Our Evangelical Cover-Up?
George Patterson
Adapted from www.healthyleaders.com 2017

I’m an Evangelical, and as an Evangelical I have the right to join my Evangelical brothers in confessing a currently-devastating sin, in repenting from it, and in making amends. I fear that the majority of us Evangelicals have been covering up one of the most significant truths of our modern age: More people are coming to faith in Christ around the world than ever before in history, while our Evangelical denominations in the West are declining.

Many denominations’ ministries have rekindled the Spirit’s fire and seen N.T. dynamics and growth, often for the first time. Without changing their theology, they simply implemented the apostles’ practices as seen in the New Testament. 

These include:

(1) Find those whom God has prepared to receive the Good News.

(2) Evangelize and baptize entire households, as the apostles did.

(3) Each family that comes to Christ is potentially the nucleus of a new home church.

(4) Help new believers witness to relatives and friends.

(5) Make disciples that lovingly obey the commandments of Jesus.
before and above all else.

(7) Start authentic churches.

(8) Recognize and motivate those who can plant a simple church.

(9) Let new churches start their own daughter churches at once.

(8)Train and coach generations of workers on the job, as in 2 Tim. 2:2.

(9) Provide action-oriented, affordable training materials that implement these dynamics.