What's Wrong With Christian Evangelicalism?
Introduction
At the tender age of 15, I was converted to a
brand of Protestant Christianity which was known at the time as Evangelicalism. For the
next 20 years, I believed in Jesus with all my heart. I witnessed in my high school, went
to Bible college, and spent 7 years as a traveling minister. During those years, I visited
100s of different Evangelical churches and became intimately familiar with their beliefs
and practices.
But then something strange happened. I began
to notice how the leaders of the faith I had first converted to began to change their
message. More and more, their sermons had to do with politics and finding ways to force
non believers to follow their religious rules. Evangelical Christianity was, in fact,
turning into Fundamentalism.
It was confusing at first, and discomforting.
Part of me felt the strong pressure to become radically committed to forcing my faith on
others, but another part of me began to question why we were trying to impose ourselves on
others while I had come to my faith of my own free will! Finally, I did something that
most Fundamentalists never bother to do: I rigorously studied the teachings of Jesus and
the rest of the Bible to see if this new and improved Evangelicalism had any merit. In
time, it became very clear to me that what had actually become Christian Fundamentalism
was a gross perversion of what Jesus taught. Not long after this realization, I left the
movement, and I'm so glad I did.
That was 17 years ago, and now I'm producing a
series of videos to share what is really going on inside this religious/political
movement. I hope to explain why so many people have been lured into Fundamentalism, and
how it differs quite drastically from the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
I should a couple new videos out every month,
so please "tune in" and feel free to share your comments and questions. |