Evangelicalism is frequently viewed in the West as being “one-dimensional”. It may be called “ABC” Christianity without the “D”: Admit, Believe, and Confess -- yet a D for “Do” is missing. With this in mind, I gave an intern an assignment once, essentially to discover what shape our own Church’s evangelicalism took. He discovered that “the respondents indicated that they believed in ultimate justification through faith, but were also insistent that works were very important”. In fact, the respondents repeatedly used auxiliary verbs such as “should”, “have to”, and “must” in relation to good works. OBSERVATION: While they did not indicate whether their good works were public or private, from my experience they were very much public. Evangelicalism should not be equated with American evangelicalism.
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