An Open Letter to Evangelical Christians一封公开信福音派基督徒

Today my friend Jeff posted an今天我的朋友杰夫张贴1 Open Letter to Evangelical Christians公开信福音派基督徒 .  It is well worthy your perusal.  In his open letter, Jeff challenges evangelical Christians to embrace the fullness of the Gospel.  Here’sa sample:这是好，值得您的审阅。在他的公开信，杰夫的挑战福音派基督徒拥抱丰满的福音。以下示例：

We have loved sacrifice instead of mercy.我们有爱的牺牲，而不是怜悯。 We have believed what is我们相信什么是
right instead of done what is right.正确的而不是做什么是正确的。 We have thought more highly of我们的思想更给予高度评价
ourselves than we should.自己比我们要。 We have exchanged biblical Christianity for我们交换了圣经的基督教为
white-American-upper-middle-class-male Christianity.白皮书-美国-中上阶级男性基督教。 And for what和什么
purposes have we done this?目的，我们做了些什么呢？ So that we might have the biggest churches?使我们有可能最大的教堂呢？
The most churches?最教会？ The most famous churches?最著名的教堂呢？

Fellow Christians, we研究员基督徒，我们
have exchanged the subversive Story of God for three palatable points.交换颠覆的故事，上帝为3适口点。
We have robbed people of the struggle of believing, the joy of我们有抢劫人民的斗争相信，喜悦
unknowing and the magnificence of paradox.不知和壮丽的悖论。 We have marketed our God我们有销售我们的上帝
like the latest-and-greatest self-help program or get-rich-quick像最新的和最大的自助计划或得到快速致富
scheme, instead of the God who showers favor on the wicked and计划，而不是上帝谁骤雨，有利于对恶人和
righteous alike.正义一样。 And why have we done this?和我们为什么这样做呢？ So that we might have the所以，我们可能有
best people?最好的人呢？ The most people?最广大人民的呢？ The most famous people?最有名的人呢？

Read the post.  The only push-back I would offer is that we remind ourselves that there is hope.  Every tradition neglects the Gospel on some points.  American Evangelicals aren’t unique in this.  However, we are unique in our level of resources–both academic and economic.  Our movement is diverse enough to foster the sort of evangelicalism we need.  There are some signs of hopeful, discontented people moving towards the sort of Christianity Jeff longs for.阅读帖子。唯一推回我想提出的是，我们提醒自己，是有希望的，每一个传统，而忽略了福音，对一些要点。美国福音派是不是在这独特的，但我们是独一无二的，在我们的资源水平无论是学术和经济，我们的运动是多元的足够，以促进这类福音神学，我们需要有一些希望的迹象，人民的不满，迈向排序基督教的杰夫渴望。

for further reading .为进一步读。 . 。 . 。

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