Evangelical Christianity is the idea, at least in conservative circles, that the true Church is called of God to spread the gospel. The gospel is the good news of what Jesus has come into the world to do. We are suppose to spread the words and story about Jesus to the world starting with our families, neighbors, personal and work relations, and the rest of the world. This is on the surface sounds good but there is a dirty little secret that Evangelicals of all varieties hate to admit. It is the elephant in the room that no one wants to admit is there. This carcinogen of the faith is the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit.

Simply put it is the doctrine of personal sin. Evangelical Christians on a whole have forgotten that they are just as egregious or at the least as capable of being just as egregious of sinners as the person that they are trying to reach for the gospel. The first step is admitting that there is a elephant in the room. The world would more readily listen to those of us who identify with Evangelical Christianity if we admitted our sin and were more willing to seek Christ to deal with it then simply pretend that it is not there.

I’ll write more on this later. Don’t know when.