The State of American Evangelicalism

Chuck Colson ruminates on the observation that Protestant Evangelical faith communities have effectively succombed to mainstream American Culture.

God forbid that we should ever become part of the mainstream. By our very character, living in a sinful world, we’re called to be countercultural, a force for moral change.

Now, in one way, of course, we always have to be part of mainstream society in the sense that God has put us in this country. We’re called to be good citizens and good neighbors. We are not somewhere out on the fringes. Jesus made it clear that we are to be “in the world.” What He told us not to do is be “of the world.”

God Bless Chuck C. It's just a shame his admonitions will never come to full fruition for Protestantism so long as there is an overriding refusal among its adherents to recognize and submit to a visible and universal teaching authority.