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Well tonight I just learned from this video I’m classified in the 6% as “evangelical”. This is news to me🤔🤔🤔 I did not realize first of all that I even fell in this category and did not realize second of all there are so few of us IN this category. Your videos are great😊 Keep postin’ em!

Appreciate the study that you've done. I looked up the word "mainline", and the "main" definition was "to inject a drug through a major vein."

I'm definitely evangelical according to the 9 questions . Praise the lord Jesus christ

As an Evangelical: it's a great shame how many self-proclaimed Evangelicals don't hold to basic orthodoxy and are totally ignorant of Biblical doctrine.

I'm definitely an Evangelical in my theology, but I'm disappointed with what has happened in the United States. It is painful to me that many now associate Evangelicals with Trump and prosperity gospel error. We need repentance and revival. The so-called Evangelical church has become weak, compromised, and in many ways no different from the world. I know many who are looking into Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy because many are craving traditional moral values. If we do not address the hypocrisy, abuse, and unbiblical practices in the Evangelical church, it will continue to decline until we all become desperate for revival, refreshing, and reformation. Also, no other religion can lead to salvation. Evangelical means Gospel. How are we getting this wrong? We need to be reading in our Bibles and not be lead astray by false teachers. I sincerely love people of other religions and never would wish them harm. I do not believe at all that Christians should force or manipulate non-believers into becoming Christians. However, the Gospel is the only way to be saved and that is why it is paramount that we share this. Why else would God the Father send His Son to brutally die on the cross for our salvation if there was another way? I was an agnostic before becoming a Christian. There's absolutely no point in playing religion. Either we believe that God is telling us the truth or we make God a liar. There is no in-between. I tried to live a life in that in-between viewpoint. It does not work. God is commanding people everywhere to repent from sin and surrender their lives to Christ in faith. The whole point of the Gospel is salvation from sin. Until we truly see our sins and idols for what they are, hateful rebellion against God and acts of destruction, we will not understand the purpose of salvation and sanctification. Jesus loves us with the purest and most beautiful love in existence. Love tells us the truth and that can deeply offend us at first. It is only through the truth we can heal and be made new.

This is appreciated, thank you

You did a superb job explaining it!

Thank you for this video. Great job on your research!

Great and balanced education here. Thanks, I needed this.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV

How is prohibition of drinking alcohol a biblical principle when Christ’s very first miracle was to turn water into wine?

I've always thought of Evangelicals as "come to church, and you'll hear the Gospel", as opposed to "here's the Gospel, once you believe, come to church."

Is it possible to link to that barna research?

Again another concise video, thanks.

Thanks. I hear the word evangelical a lot, but never found a good definition of what it means until watching this.

Great video. I feel so informed.

you get a 10, excellent sir. you deserve more views.

Thanks for the massive info. :)

love these videos

Thank you for this info

Very informative video! I have a question though, how do catholic ideals differ from evangelical ideals?

He said standards of music.Could someone expound on that statement. Thank you.....

Very impressive summary!

Loved this video, wish you defined each term in the list for those of us who aren't well versed in theology. Like " higher criticism", "heterodoxy" and the rest. Great video tho

6% are Evangelical by Barna's 9 criteria? What world do I live in? I thought the 9 are the basic standard. Narrow is the gate, I guess.

What type of churches are mainline? I have never heard of that term. Thank you for the video!

Very informative Thank you

Glory to Jesus

I have a question. Where do Evangelical Baptists store their bibles?

great explanation

Islam leading to salvation is blatantly opposed to christianity.

How do y’all baptise?

It always was a slippery issue. I defined the term as "The intellectual heirs of Charles Finney". I suppose, though, it's probably best that we give the word a rest because it means a lot of different things nowadays. I use better terms to describe Evangelicals when I can like "Conservative Arminian Baptist" or "Holiness folks" or "non-denom Reformed Baptist" ect.

Thank you!

I'm Catholic but came from a protestant tradition, the United Methodist Church. However, I'm a saved Catholic. I accepted Christ as my Savior and Lord and Christ is the ONLY way you can be saved, apart from works or the law. Even though I went through the RCIA, I vowed to myself that I would accept Catholic teaching only if it was compatible with God's word, the bible. I believe I was sent to my current church to pray for those in my parish and others, and my hope is that if some of them don't know Jesus Christ like they should, that they will. Accept him. He's the only one who can save you.

6%? Can you break that down into age and gender? Actually, what's the figure now since this video is nearly 4 years old?

What is the difference between Baptist and Evangelical belief. Also I visited a Baptist church and noticed that in their worship service they do not clap or raise their hands etc. Is that part of their beliefs?

By the Barna criteria, this Catholic counts as one of the 6% 9-point Evangelicals. Not sure what to make of that. Maybe some of those criteria do not adequately reflect Evangelical belief. From what I have heard, one of the big questions within Evangelicalism today is, "What is Evangelicalism ?" Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones and John Stott (I think it was) had something of a difference of opinion over this question. If Evangelicals of their standing could not agree on the matter, I am not sure that the question will be answered any time soon. I think Evangelicalism is an *ethos*, an attitude, a way of doing things - something too subtle to be given unambiguous boundaries, like a triangle, or pinned down like a butterfly in a show-case; but recognisable when met. Perhaps there are degrees of being Evangelical.

Yes that's what I find confusing about the german name for what we in dutch call de protestantse (protestant) kerk (church) In dutch evangelical is called (evangelicaal,evangelische gemeente) but nowdays they are more referenced to as (christen gemeente )christian fellowship, and also often but not allways do not hold pure evangelical vieuws and are more or less influenced by charismatic or pentecostal teachings.

what when you compared fundamentalists with evangelicals and mainline there were some eror when speaking of mainline ones. for example you sayed that mainline christians do not hold to scripture infalibility but they do most of them do

Got references?

understanding beliefs in videos that are bite sized pieaces, thank you

One thing that you missed to point out is that conservative Evangelicals teach that repentance from sin is essential part of the Gospel, and therefore genuine faith will be manifested in true repentance and spiritual regeneration (born-again) and will also be confirmed afterwards in life of progressive sanctification. It is not enough to say sorry for sins once at conversion so a person can be justified by Christ's atoning sacrifice, and afterwards continue living in willful sin. This belief that one is saved only by accepting Jesus as his savior is called Free Grace doctrine (maybe you should make a video about this).

Where can I find the 6%? I need to go to that church 😩.

By the way some people use lower case evangelicals and capital Evangelicals to distinct new fundamental evangelicals and the Evangelicals came from Reformation Protestant traditions...

What about the principle of supporting Israel?

Sola Scriptura!---On the subject of "exclusivity" it is a teaching found in the Bible, John 3:16-21, 14:6 etc. Also, Acts 15 shows that the apostolic college was Evangelical. The Plymouth community, [1620], and the people of the Great Migration who came to New England, 1630 to 1644, which cast its mantle over America, were solidly Evangelical. At the time of America's founding seventy five percent of Americans looked at the world through Puritan/Evangelical eyes. The result? "“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” [John Quincy Adams]

Okay maybe not the right place to ask this, but here we go none the less I NEED to hear from one of these people so here we go. How does a new earth evangelical explain away the entire science of geology?

Nice video, very informative

That certified check mark is the best. xDD

Jesus said: If you love me, you will obey my commandments.John 14:15

I don't understand how that "not drinking alcohol" came from, people in the Bible drank wines, Jesus turned water into wine. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Nazareth song "Holy roler."

(Full disclosure - commented the same elsewhere) Fair enough. An Evangelical holds the Bible in highest regard, i.e., it is 'inerrant', but the way it is interpreted marks the difference between an Evangelical and a Fundamentalist. An Evangelical will believe in the Bible, but interpret it, perhaps, more liberally as narrative, or myth, or philosophy (at least in some areas). A Fundamentalist will interpret it LITERALLY and STRICTLY. That's the fundamental (no pun intended) difference between these two schools of thought. Curiously and commonly, Fundamentalists often hide under the guise of Evangelicals, without even realising they are the former.

Another content about differences of Assemblies of God and Church of God Cleveland

good jnfo thanks

As a member of the AG & LCMS, I personally see both as evangelical like I am

The question that needs to be asked is: What percentage of Evangelicals think that legalizing prostitution is consistent with family values?

The 9 stated criteria don't even specifically required orthodoxy in the sense of Trinitarianism.

Just an atheist learning some historical information on judeo Christian religion.

As an outsider my conclusion is the answer to the question posed in the video title is chaos .

Your either saved or your not . . .

Our Church was founded by Lutheran missionaries but is considered Evangelical. & what you just explained is what our Church stands for, especially about being Born-Again. So I guess we are Evangelical despite our Lutheran origins.

By the criteria here, neither Fundamentalists nor Evangelicals are Christians, or at least not very good Christians. E.g. Why doesn't Barna's list of characteristics of Evangelicals not include repentance from sin, but only confession of sin? Any Christian knows Jesus' words, "Repent or perish." Even worse, the reprobates confession of sin is nothing more than a non-confessing prayer chant, "I confess my sins." What sins?

I saw a so called “Bible bus” with evangelical Christians I talked with the man and I got interested in it

Unitarian universalist here. Gosh I go 0 for 4 on that evangelical test!

Hey! I'm part of the 6%!

Why 3 in 1 or trinity in christianity should exist? Why need the role of father of god, why need the spirit of god, and jesus? What father & spirit can do?😮

it turns out I am evangelical!

That is where I will depart from evangelicals: Christian exclusivity. Did Jesus meant that he is alone is the way to the Father? For those who heard about Jesus and heard or listen to him or his disciples on His teachings and did not believe will not go to the Father. but those who have not known him or his teachings but does what Jesus' said is like personally hearing him and does what the says.

Good overview of what an evangelical is. I would be on the conservative end of the spectrum, dispensational in hermeneutic and Free Grace in soteriology. The distinction between conservative evangelicals and more moderate fundamentalists is practically non-existent and could be said to be the one and the same. Diehard IFB types would tend to view the moderates as compromisers who have crossed over into the 'neo-evangelical' camp and an addition to their very long separation lists of those they can't fellowship with.

in my country (Vietnam), Evangelical is the largest protestant church.

I understand the theory of salvation by grace. Which could possibly be true. But the Bible says faith without works is dead. How can you have salvation without faith? To me thats definitely contradictory.

Baptised Catholic but am evangelical

I'm guessing most, if not all, of those 6% are leaders in evangelical churches.

Don't you have anything else to do?

Jim Jones met all this criteria. Heavenly man.

I thought this was about Evangellion not religion

How would you classify me? I consider scripture to inerrant, that is every word in the original text is there because God willed it to be, and is therefor true by definition. But I also realize that the bible is neither a history text nor a science text and should not be interpreted as such. In particular, I do not believe the earth was created in six literal days. What non-Christians disparagingly call "the story of Adam and Eve and the talking snake" is not a historical account, but its central message is quite true: humans have been defiant and have been separating themselves from God ever since humans have been human. Which means I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ is my Savior. How literal various Old Testament accounts are is an interesting question, but one's salvation does not depend on that. What is essential is knowing I am a sinner and Jesus Christ is my Savior, and acting accordingly to the extent God gives me the grace. Confronted with Jesus' question "...but who do you say I am", my answer is the same as Peter's: "You are the Christ, the son of the living God."

I meet all 9 of the criteria points, so I guess that I am part of the 6%.

How did Christianity go from the religion of charity and good works, to the church of hate, bigotry and intolerance? With a growing propensity for violence?

Evangelicals I observe at close range may reference the Kingdom of God, but their attachment is to the earthly kingdom of man. The habit of placing faith and grace in between the action of following Christ's commandments is the avoidance of one's spiritual responsibility. Simply, they believe in self defense of their earthly bodies. They cannot turn the other cheek when defending their children. Therefore, could you expect them to sell everything they own of value and give the money to the poor? To love those that hate and despise them? They may be good people by earthly standards but the Kingdom of God does not have a place for full of faith but not enough faith to commit to full action.

I am evangelical and I didnt even know that there is mainline that dont follow the Christian basics xD

I would say are free Lutheran Church the aflc has to be more Evangelical and I would be more Evangelical I only go because that's where God sent me and that's why I got saved

All the stats that you gave about WHO believes WHAT indicates that nobody actually KNOWS anything for sure. That's the definition of faith. It's all in your mind unless you can show otherwise.

The many self-identified "Evangelicals" who claimed that my father, an ordained American Baptist Association minister and who been the pastor of American Baptist churches in Philadelphia, PA, southern New Jersey and New Mexico, was not a Christian and was a follower of Satan because he was not an Evangelical has led me to despise Evangelicals and refer to them as CINOs (Christians In Name Only). An Evangelical pastor tried everything he could to shut down my father's Baptist church in Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, to include frequently calling INS/ICE to raid my father's church for "sheltering illegal immigrants" (the majority of the congregation at my father's New Mexico church were Hispanic-Americans whose families had been American citizens for two or more generations).

Does not evangelical imply that one believes the basic doctrines of the faith, the fundamentals? though Evangelical has not received the derogation of the press equal to "fundamentalism," which now carries a negative connotation of being fanatical. They call Islamic bombers fundamentalists, not evangelicals -- not that Muslims use the term for themselves. I don't like including pentecostals as they are another bag in my thought processes. It could be that a lot of so-called evangelicals are really neo-orthodox today.

If salvation is needed, that's my responsibility. My good works will be rewarded in the afterlife. That makes sense to me.

I'm an evangelical agnostic atheist. 😅

Their is only one kind of Christian your are saved or your not . . .Hodos!

I must be a 100% evangelical. Only in the 6%. I was shocked by this.

The only thing you need to know is that Christ is not divided and a house divided against itself cannot stand! SO then ALL denominations are a house of cards

Being a evangelical and being born again is 2 different things being a evangelical involves what knowledge u have scripture wise to be true but being born again is a child like emotional attachment of those truths from the heart. The Lord GOD only has 1 true church and none of them given a term or name by men are apart of the true church of The Lord Jesus Christ.

I wonder if the research you have done for these videos has changed your personal viewpoints. No need to reply. I’m just wondering.

Im an Evangelical Roman Catholic.

6% Gang

Why argue when there is no original but hundred of heresy copies and contradictions plus No eyewitness This system wouldn't stand in out law court as the truth.

Tbh it doesnt make sense what any of these words mean. Religion is just a word. your belief in the trinity and your action towards the purpose god has for your life is the only thing that matters and the bible clearly gives us what we need to live out that truth.

A big problem I have with evangelicals is that they turn evangelism into a means of grace not just for the people they are attempting to convert but for themselves, when the Bible does not say we should regard evangelism that way. When Jesus said to "go and make disciples of all nations" this was an instruction for his apostles specifically, not the "great commission" for all believers that evangelicals (and most Protestants these days) claim it to be. The Bible does say we are to bear Christian witness to your neighbors, but this mainly means we are to lead godly lives, be ready to talk about Jesus if asked, and never deny our faith under persecution. It does not mean we are to go around trying to "save" as many people as possible as if it were a command for all Christians to do that.