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A Question for Professor Moore

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Which best defines a Southern Baptist Evangelical in campus ministry?1: All kids in ministry dress up for Halloween as Al Mohler, but group splits when half discover it is meant as a compliment.OR2. Half the kids rebel and go to local Halloween party only to tearfully repent on Sunday morning and . . . . Continue Reading »

Halloween and Definitions

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If indeed an evangelical is a fundamentalist who dresses up for Halloween, a definition I accept with eagerness, we can expand on the list already given to further clarify what we have in common and what still divides us:Apologetics:- an evangelical in the Van Til (presuppositionalist) tradition: . . . . Continue Reading »

Should We Drop Out?

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Of the culture that is?This post has me thinking .  . . but I cannot see totally dropping out for three reasons.First, there is some good stuff being produced that is easier to find if one is not a total drop out.Second, as a teacher I would find it even harder to understand the cultural . . . . Continue Reading »

Is it fair to say . . .

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given the vast theological and social differences between those people who call themselves evangelicals that an evangelical is a traditional Christian who wants you to be one too? Or is it merely (to paraphrase a student) a fundamentalist who watches The . . . . Continue Reading »