Rich on the Road

"...we Evangelicals repudiate two equal and opposite errors into which many Christians have fallen recently. One error has been to privatize faith, interpreting and applying it to the personal and spiritual realm only. Such dualism falsely divorces the spiritual from the secular, and causes faith to lose its integrity and become privately engaging and publicly irrelevant, and another form of hot tub spirituality.  

The other error, made by both the religious left and the religious right in recent decades, is to politicize faith, using faith to express essentially political points that have lost touch with biblical truth. That way faith loses its independence, the church becomes "the regime at prayer," Christians become "useful idiots" for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest form. Christian beliefs are used as weapons for political interests." 

 A few local names of note involved in the effort -- A. Larry Ross whose P.R. firm represents Billy Graham and other Christian leaders, Dr. Mark Bailey and Dr. Darrel Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary.

You can read the whole manifesto at:

http://www.evangelicalmanifesto.com/

Rich