Thanks for the link. I had checked the movie out a few weeks ago when I saw it linked from your site. I was quite impressed with it although I thought that it might have been a bit edgy.

I have hopes that maybe the “Evangelical Manifesto” can become the voice that we agree is needed.

Mike

I do think there is a grass roots movement to de-politicize Evangelicals and bring them back to the Gospel. Unfortunately, most of this work is coming from Emergent churches that have very little denominational ‘street cred’. It would be refreshing to hear some denominational voices echoing what the emergents are saying.

Tim Keller is helpful, but he doesn’t say enough in this regard. Driscoll is helpful, but he smells too emergent to most denominational leaders. Campolo is helpful, but he’s too radical, too given to overstatement to be heard by most (I do love that he rattles the cages, though). Steve Brown is a very helpful voice, but he plays too much. We simply need a few strong leaders to come together to address this threat to the Gospel.

Frankly, I hear far too many Evangelicals parroting Dobson, Bill O’reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and the like. Those are not the voices we need to be listening to. There is not a serious theologian in the bunch.

A very helpful documentary has been made by Dan Merchant, who has also written a companion book, called “Lord, Save us from your Followers”. Here’s the link.

http://lordsaveusthemovie.com/

Tim