I recently read a blog asking if SBC folk can be evangelicals at www.sbcwitness.com.  (of course I had to respond and give my two cents).  The blogger said we are not evangelicals, but was a little fuzzy when it comes to how so many SBC theologians and pastors are leaders in what he calls the “right” of evangelicals.  What do our evangelical elders think of this proposal?

I will quickly state that we should keep close ties with other believers and organizations who are in agreement with what we proclaim is the gospel and how we proclaim it.  Yes, there are distinctives that we must hold to–not because that is how my grandpappi did it, but because of what we learn from the scriptures.
Does anyone even know what an evangelical is these days?  Maybe we should ask the postevangelicals or the Neo-evangelicals to find out what they are improving on or moving beyond.  As a systematic theologian I constantly think in categories, but man, it is getting ridiculous with the evangelical world.

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