Russell Moore: Trump is a 1980s Evangelical Preacher without any pretense of Gospel
Donald Trump is a 1980s television evangelist without any pretense of the gospel. He fits in the same mold.
Trump is distilled, concentrated version of evangelicalism celebrity culture.
Evangelicals are never at our best when we are the majority.
We need to stop thinking like a moral Majority and start thinking like a prophetic Minority. (16:15)
- lacking theology
- misunderstands who we are, and bears false witness to who America is
- We just got to get back to where we were before the culture fell apart. Genesis 3.
- Pelagian triumphalist are buying into a huge loss/fall.
- Evangelicals want to go to extremes, opposite of where they just were
It is increasingly difficult to hold the middle, predicting a divorce between progressives and fundamentalists.
We have to make a distinction between religious persecution and being offended (30 min)
Evangelicals believe that religious liberty is under threat, but want their beliefs given preference.