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Evangelical roundup for July 10, 2023

John Fea   |  July 10, 2023

Can you find a young John Belushi in this pic?

What is happening in Evangelical land?

Church of England evangelicals continue to oppose same-sex blessings.

David French on humility and Christian politics.

Are evangelicals becoming less Southern Baptist?

A Christian contemporary music duo is taking heat for appearing with musicians from Bethel Church in Redding, CA.

Roger Olsen on the way evangelicals were.

Michael Wear’s forthcoming book:

My weekend pic.twitter.com/8nnYcSryhZ

— Michael Wear (@MichaelRWear) July 8, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu, courts evangelical voters.

The Salvation Army turns 158.

A Christianity Today writer on what makes a good church:

A few for me:

• They preach God’s grace.
• They focus more on what God has done than what they are doing.
• Pastors don’t have to be in charge in every room they are in.
• They hold anxiety well and celebrate the ways they care for each other.
• They make room for misfits.

— Daniel Silliman (@danielsilliman) July 9, 2023

Bart Barber, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention:

My sister snapped this picture, and I’m just not going to try to explain it to you. pic.twitter.com/WpVvECHFb9

— Bart Barber (@bartbarber) July 8, 2023

An evangelical pastor is mayor of Colorado Springs.

Can AI help with Bible translation?

An evangelical megachurch in Northern Ireland.

Ed Stetzer throws out the first pitch before a White Sox game:

https://twitter.com/edstetzer/status/1678108405439791104

Music in big evangelical churches and little evangelical churches.

News from Greg Laurie’s Harvest Crusade.

A student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary continues to advance on America’s Got Talent.

Justin Giboney on critical race theory.

Blast from the past:

A Texas Baptist church apologizes after the release of “Shiny Happy People.”

Satanists are organizing against evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht. Both sides look pretty foolish:

Not today Satan 🙅‍♂️
If you think drag queens and “unbaptisms” will keep the people of God in Washington State from worshipping, you dont know the BOLDNESS of the PNW.

See you soon Washington, Oregon and Idaho! https://t.co/52caT5RD6b

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) July 8, 2023

Is evangelical orthodoxy dangerous?

Should evangelicals start taking-over towns?

Franklin Graham continues his opposition to the LGBTQ community:

The largest teachers union in America has recommended that teachers include a book called “Gender Queer” in their summer reading. Reports say this book includes depictions & descriptions of oral sex as well as masturbation. The reading list is meant for teachers, but I don’t know…

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) July 9, 2023

Is it possible for God to be “finished” with a place?:

God is not finished with California 🔥 pic.twitter.com/h6zGyRl24w

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) July 9, 2023

A Bill Hybels disciple gets a big gig.

Should Uganda execute people for homosexual practice? A conservative evangelical writer weighs-in.

Jack Hibbs says that those who question his view of American history are “demomic.” He repeats the false story of George Washington praying at Valley Forge and even gets the name of the painter wrong. (We debunked this myth in Was America Founded as a Christian nation?). Watch:

The Pentecostal prophets gather. Eric Metaxas thinks the cocaine in the White House will go down in the history books as a disgrace on America. It’s “pure evil” according to Metaxas and God is exposing it:

Dondi Costin begins his work as president of Liberty University. Jonathan Falwell is by his side.

So much for all truth is God’s truth:

If you want to protect the Gospel, rid the church of the influence of all worldly ideologies.

“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than…

— Tom Buck (Five Point Buck) (@TomBuck) July 8, 2023

Beth Moore is getting nervous about Twitter:

I’m shook thinking of giving up Twitter. Are y’all keeping both??? I need another social media distraction like I need 10 broken toes. Man, y’all, we wouldn’t have made it through the pandemic without this place and each other. But I agree, Twitter’s about to destroy itself.

— Beth Moore (@BethMooreLPM) July 8, 2023

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