Jesus and the evangelicals, or Jesus and the awakened In the 6th Chapter of his book "Irresistible," Joel Edwards is fighting for the use of the term evangelical. He was indeed never been easy to define evangelical identity, because there are various evangelical sub-cultures that make up all just a part of the movement and therefore do not have the right to determine the truth for all. Ok, Ok, so far so good. In the 7th Chapter he calls many reasons that speak for any use that might be summed up with a set of Tom Wright: There is no better word. May be so but I wonder often:
Am I Evangelical? And I think that this is something my own socialization has to do. I grew up in the local church may, old church building and experience also - from time to time - like a liturgical worship. Attracted I'm in my youth of the missionary work of Klaus Vollmer, who was then working in the Office of missionary service of the Hanoverian Church. He announced to us as students and later as a student of the Gospels Jesus's, which invited us to faith and repentance. I can not remember that in my youth I once heard the word evangelical. I believed in the triune God, especially appreciate Paul (Romans, Galatians) and was fascinated by the servant of God in Isaiah, we announced the Klaus Vollmer. When we compared the special devotion of ordinary people in the church, we called ourselves as a Pietist, I knew then but little of what is going on with the name up, only understood that they were pious and had to do with revival. The word evangelical
I learned then really only in the SMD group a bit about the employee (s) from the free churches used it like, later it appeared in the Tabor brothers house again, where I took my first job as a lecturer. Even then I would have never called evangelical. Pointed out a few books and articles I searched for something and then discovered that the concept of the time (dt) pietism in England for the local has been "Pietist" used and derived from gospel. Since I know it ultimately is an imported word (which is not a bug, I drink Coke and love McCaffee). I think today the word pietistic a bit antiquated - but still good (as is the case with old words) and use mine like the word
revival, awakened Christianity. This could be a cross word, because in some German pietism with the 17th and 18 Century understanding of revival and the 19th Century speak. Furthermore, fits to the internationally used word field Revivel and especially
Awakening for the historical phenomena, the people repented and changed the world (Francke, Zinzendorf, Wesley, Wilberforce, Wichern, Kottwitz, Löhe, L. Harms Fliedner, Fry, Moody, Nightingale, Krawielitzki and the rest of them). I feel as somehow more bullish, but I refuse not short. Me, the word evokes perhaps only detail how Wright will just evangelical best. Of course this say something else, evangelical points us to the Scripture and brought to the change experienced by the people through the encounter with God in the Bible. But perhaps this difference is not schlimm.Ich undpietistisch am awakened, and if it helps the other even evangelical.
