The American Experience and the Death of Evangelism
Jan 20 by Ingrid Schlueter
Dr. Al Mohler has written a strong article about how American evangelicals judge God by American cultural ideals. If the truth of the Bible doesn’t measure up to our cultural beliefs, it’s time to jettison the Bible. That is exactly what is happening. Mohler writes:
“…Wolfe, who directs the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, suggests that Americans are confusing the American experience with the ways of God. Without doubt, assumptions about autonomy and equality “are sort of built into the American experience.” These ideas are now just taken for granted. Americans generally assume themselves and their fellow citizens to be unconditionally autonomous, free to make and remake themselves in protean fashion, and thus the unfettered captains of their own souls.”
