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    The Fearvangelicals

    by Ben Hein February 23, 2021
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    One of the overlooked consequences of turning from God is fear. In the book of Leviticus, a long list of consequences for disobedience is sealed in the fear that will overtake the hearts of God’s people:

    And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. (Leviticus 26:36-37)

    In her oft-quoted essay on fear, essayist Marilynne Robinson comments on this passage,

    Those who forget God, the single assurance of our safety however that word may be defined, can be recognized in the fact that they make irrational responses to irrational fears…There are always real dangers in the world, sufficient in their day. Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on the one hand, and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat everywhere.[1]

    When fear consumes the hearts of an individual or a group, they will be inclined to see threats and enemies everywhere, and they will no longer be able to discern what is true from what is false.

    Any honest evaluation would recognize that this kind of fear is running amok in American Evangelicalism. Indeed, some historians would argue that it would be impossible to give an account of Evangelicalism in the United States without describing the role fear has played in shaping our collective conscience.[2] Fear has become such a powerful force in American Evangelicalism today that we have become what pastor and author Skye Jethani has dubbed the “Fearvangelicals”.

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    Christians in Culture pt. 3: Our Posture Toward Culture

    by Ben Hein February 2, 2021
    by Ben Hein February 2, 2021

    Another reason why Christians approach cultural engagement so differently is because of their varying views on common grace and the level of cultural influence, if any, that Christians ought to have. In…

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    Christians in Culture pt. 2: Historical Humility

    by Ben Hein January 28, 2021
    by Ben Hein January 28, 2021

    One of the reasons why Christians differ in their views and approaches to cultural engagement is because they not only view their own history differently, but also because they view our present…

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    Christians in Culture pt. 1: Introduction

    by Ben Hein January 27, 2021
    by Ben Hein January 27, 2021

    In his high priestly prayer, Jesus prayed for his Church in this way: I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world,…

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