Brannon Howse: Aired March 15, 2012

National Review Online is not a Christian website but a conservative website. Yet, this website posted an article this week titled, "Evangelicals' Collapsing Cultural Influence." The article lays out that the decline is because of such things as the social gospel, lack of Biblical evangelicalism, lack of church discipline, lack of Biblical discipleship and an over emphasis on moralizing that makes evangelicals look like hypocrites as the press reports on one evangelical scandal after another.

Interesting that a conservative website is reporting not only what Worldview Weekend has been reporting for several years but they are reporting what most Christian websites don’t understand and would not report if they did.

Even recently there is evidence evangelicals are losing influence as some evangelical leaders have backed the failing Newt Gingrich, backed the failed personhood amendment recently in Mississippi and other states and evangelicals have failed to pass truckloads of legislation for years. The case seems clear that evangelicalism, and much of the pro-family movement in America, has not only failed but is not even that well respected for understandable reasons by most Americans.

Perhaps evangelicalism is not respected because it is really not even evangelical but more about access, power, money, building earthly empires and an unbiblical kingdom on earth which is a fast way to be perceived as self-serving and a type of Christian Taliban attempting to force its agenda on the unsaved world. Today Brannon discuss how Christians and churches can be the most effective and even gain the respect of non-Christians in our proclamation of the gospel.