{"id":759,"date":"2007-10-19T00:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T00:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/10\/evangelicals-fearing-evangelic.html"},"modified":"2007-10-19T00:53:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T00:53:01","slug":"evangelicals-fearing-evangelic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/10\/evangelicals-fearing-evangelic.html","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals fearing evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent meeting of leading evangelical leaders issued a statement about evangelicalism that read, in part:<br \/>\n\u201cWe have become deeply concerned about some movements within traditional evangelicalism that seem to be diminishing the church\u2019s life and leading us away from our historic beliefs and practices. On the one hand, we are troubled by the idolatry of personal consumerism and the politicization of faith; on the other hand, we are distressed by the unchallenged acceptance of theological and moral relativism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent meeting of leading evangelical leaders issued a statement about evangelicalism that read, in part: \u201cWe have become deeply concerned about some movements within traditional evangelicalism that seem to be diminishing the church\u2019s life and leading us away from our historic beliefs and practices. 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