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An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.
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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
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Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.
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I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
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He saved us in order that He might begin to transform His world into the kind of world that He willed for it to be when He created it. … When Jesus saved us, He saved us to be agents of a great revolution, the end of which will come when the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God
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Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, If I should wake before I die. . . . Life can get away from you.
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I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
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But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
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Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?
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Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
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The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!
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Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
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Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.
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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
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Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.
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