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 .p30 Chris Winans at Cornerstone Church "pull, don't push". Preach godly character, play dumb on political issues, shrug.
 
 .p430 Chris Winans at Cornerstone Church "pull, don't push". Preach godly character, play dumb on political issues, shrug.
 .p432 Winans preaches author's favorite verse: Second Corinthians, Chapter 4, Verse 18.
  .NIV: ''So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.''
 .p432 the purpose of the church is to make disciples of all the nations
  . to some evangelicals, the purpose of the church is to "own the libs" with an aggressive, identitarian conservatism.
 .p433 SBC Bart Barber codifying the efforts of Denhollander's task force
 .p433 [[ https://www.prri.org/press-release/survey-two-thirds-of-white-evangelicals-most-republicans-sympathetic-to-christian-nationalism/ | Survey: Two-Thirds of White Evangelicals, Most Republicans Sympathetic to Christian Nationalism ]]
 .p434 90% white adherents to Christian nationalism agreed "God intended America to be a new promised land" run by "European Christians". Broader sample rejected that by two-to-one margin
 .p434 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hawley | Josh Hawley ]] "Patrick Henry quote" actually from [[ https://newrepublic.com/post/174104/josh-hawley-posts-fake-quote-white-nationalist-magazine-fourth-july | 1956 magazine ''The Virginian''
 .p435 "God does not show favoritism," as Peter said, "but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right."
 .p438 Believers 89% in 2016, 81% in 2022.
 .p439 2007 no faith affiliation ("nones") 16%, in 2021 30% (rate -1% per year)
 .p439 Barna research: in the 1990s, 1/3 (33%?) of pastors under 40, 16% today
 .p440 Individual evangelicals rebranding to mainline Protestants or "ex-vangelicals".
 .p441 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games | Finite vs. infinite games ]] zero sum vs. improvement
 .p445 [[ https://redeemingbabel.org/god-doesnt-bite-his-fingernails/ | God doesn't bite his fingernails ]]
 .2 Corinthians 4:18 -- "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal".

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta 2023 Beaverton Lib 270.82 ALB

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