Mohler on evangelicalism’s terminal generation
Al Mohler reposts a helpful challenge to the current generation of young evangelicals. Here is his conclusion:
Sociologist James Davison Hunter has long warned that younger evangelicals tend to go soft on this doctrine [of the exclusivity of Christ as Saviour]. Educated in a culture of postmodern relativism and ideological pluralism, this generation has been taught to avoid making any exclusive claim to truth. Speak of your truth, if you must–but never claim to know the Truth. Unless this course is reversed, there will be no evangelicals in the next generation.
Charles Spurgeon stated it plainly: “We have come to a turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.” Those words ring with prophetic urgency more than a century after they were written. Evangelicals must regain theological courage and conviction, or we must face the tragic reality that this may be evangelicalism’s terminal generation.
