Deeper shade of grey | the E-word

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t seems the Theological Worldview meme is doing the rounds again, it made me wonder how hard do you have to try to make sure you get the outcome you want? (Incidentally I was more emergent/postmodern; more evangelical holiness/Wesleyan and more neo orthodox than when I did it here. I remember doing a political one at the time of the general election and however hard I tried to be true to my Labour inclination I popped out a Liberal Democrat! It seems that John Buckeridge, editor of Christianity Magazine, would shy from the label evangelical! You can read his article THE ‘E’ WORD here. It seems to have caused some interest in various places here.

“I’m tired of being tarred with the identities of men with megaphones who shout ‘hell’, ‘wrath’ and ‘damnation’ at passers-by and fail to say, ‘love’, ‘grace’ or ‘forgiveness’. I’m tired of being tarred with the identities of the ‘anti-everything’ brigade – who angrily list the things they are against and claim to speak for ‘evangelicals’, but actually have a tiny support base. And I’m tired of being tarred with US right wing foreign policy”.

Deeper shade of grey appears every Wednesday on theRubicon. Find past posts and a bio of Gordon Cotterill here.

1 Comment to Deeper shade of grey | the E-word

1. John Buckeridge has a good point, although a friend would say to me that it is irrelevant what the media portray evangelicals to be. The real problem with any title is that everyone hears it with their own agenda. So to some a Salvationist is about brass bands and timbrels, whilst others see it as a social service charity, or still others see is as the group who gave them a cup of tea in the trenches. Even those of us who are Salvationists struggle to sing from the same hymn sheet (or should that be projector?)

   So I for one am fed up with labels in general and instead am trying to seek to be a disciple of Jesus wherever He sends me. Although thinking about it is disciple not simply another label?
Graeme Smith on November 22nd, 2007

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