This final point, it must be remembered, is not expressed by one who is not an evangelical, but by one who is evangelical and the principal of an evangelical Bible college in Australia. Behind this last point lies the observation of evangelical young people and their use of the Scriptures. The fact remains, however, that the great bulk of evangelical folk have their Biblical theology molded by popular convention speakers and authors and not by solid, sober theologians and exegetes from evangelical ranks. The big names in popular evangelicalism are not the names of our better theologians and exegetes. Often when the work of such scholars is consulted, it is consulted in the already fixed framework of the one doing the consulting.
Superficiality marks so much of influential speaking and writing in evangelical circles today.
Also, not infrequently, the Bible is just simply ignored. Only recently I was reading an earnest statement concerning Christian existence which was quite wide of the Biblical perspective. One of the chief characteristics of the presentation was the well-nigh complete absence of Scriptural support. There are two chief characteristics of so many of the young folk who apply to our college in Australia. First, a self-confessed ignorance of the Bible.