It’s certainly happened before!In the Bible, James and John were two of Jesus’ closest colleagues and John was his best friend.
“How can Christian people,” the world is asking, “be so intent on protecting ‘their’ president that he states he can ‘shoot someone on Fifth Avenue’ and not lose any votes?’” How can people commanded to love their enemies and care for the sojourners be among the most anti-immigrant people in our culture?The answer is we’ve convinced ourselves this is how God wants us to be.
A similar mindset exists in today’s evangelical church. No reproduction, electronic or otherwise, without the permission of Regent College. When a village of mixed-race people, known as Samaritans, rejected Jesus, James and John fell back on the only mindset they’d ever known. New subscribers get a free title from J.I.
Join over 5,500 listeners enjoying weekly sales and exclusive free downloads, right in your Inbox. See All Audio by Owen Chadwick. Evangelical Christian communities have been living a mixture of religion and right-wing politics for so long we’re convinced God demands that we be more fervent for his laws than being fervent about the people he sent Jesus to save.
Their lifelong zeal had been to follow God’s rules or be punished, but their boss was telling them to think the way they’d always known, was wrong.
For almost a half century Carl Henry has awakened the evangelical community to political and social action.
Owen Chadwick presents an historical overview of the Evangelical mindset by focusing on five leading ideas and practices of the Evangelical Movement.
A mindset is a basic belief system that drives us. Join over 5,500 listeners enjoying weekly sales and exclusive free downloads, right in your Inbox. New subscribers get a free title from J.I. A similar mindset exists in today’s evangelical church.A mindset is a basic belief system that drives us. But one would assume that Christians, with biblical commands such as “as much as it’s in your control, be at peace with others” would be above the fray. These are Old Testament beliefs in a New Testament world.
The Evangelical Mindset. The good, Christian women of the late fifties Little Rock, Arkansas held prayer meetings on the steps of Little Rock Central High School praying God would save their school from the “evils of desegregation.” When those prayers didn’t work, they just moved to the suburbs to get away from “those people.” Today Christian zeal to pass laws to ban bad behaviors are driving Christians to believe they are to speak curses over our country for “rejecting Jesus” – totally missing that Jesus made it clear that’s not God’s directive.The world outside the evangelical church community is scratching its collective head as to how good-hearted, smart, Christian people can be in complete, unwavering support and defense of Republican President Trump when those same people were loudly incensed by the immorality of a Democratic President Bill Clinton. And those beliefs are not from heaven.In history, lifelong mindsets have driven “good” people to make bad conclusions.
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I’d say, after fifty years of mixing our religion with partisan, conservative politics we simply don’t know the spirit we are of.Because of this, the world around us has lost interest in what the church has to say. The belief that God wants to punish people for their bad behavior or punish America for not having the correct laws is the same spirit for which Jesus rebuked James and John.
And, boy, did the two guys nicknamed “The Sons of Thunder” have a plan for this village!They asked Jesus if they could nuke that town with “fire from heaven.” They were sure this holy indignation would please Jesus — It didn’t.Instead, the Bible says Jesus rebuked them – quite the opposite of the expected reaction.
Jesus called this misalignment a lack of knowing “the spirit (mindset) you are of.” Today, divisiveness and tribalism seems to be as American as Apple Pie, Justin Bieber and Yankees baseball. “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of,” said Jesus as he explained that he didn’t come to condemn people who reject him, but to restore their connection to God.How confusing this must have been for James and John.
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