There's a book that was written a couple decades ago called The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by an

It's by a guy named Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

The scandal being that there wasn't one. And again, you can even look at it in terms of academia. Yes, there are some evangelical scholars that are widely respected, but not very many. And so I think it's a situation where evangelicals have very underperformed versus their share of the population, certainly in these areas.

That's what we're doing. It's not so much that the evangelical world is hung up on a certain particular kind of sin. Those are the symptoms of something bigger underlying it. For instance, a group of people who is really gung -ho about trying to find evangelical leaders who have committed some kind of sexual sin, or tying them to some kind of sexual sin, or finding out about financial indiscretions.

First, it is important to point out that so many is not an accurate characterization. It may seem like many evangelical Christian leaders are caught in scandals, but this is due to the vast amount of attention such scandals are given.

It almost makes – it gives the illusion that, like, you know what? Evangelicalism is just all this way. It creates this illusion of a consensus. And really, it's not a consensus. It's just a consensus of a handful of people that are on all the boards.

The real scandal is not that there is a phalanx of crypto -racist and American evangelicalism resisting justice. The scandal is evangelicalism's stunted conscience. In 2013, the scandal of the evangelical conscience broke out again when some African -American Christian leaders like Brian Loritz brought up, again, Douglas Wilson's book Black and Tan.

And I think there's so much to say about this that is in support of that particular narrative, because we all know something exists that some call Big Eva. I call it the evangelical industrial complex.

Some have called it the deep state of Evangelicalism. I mean, if you want to get, you know, duh, duh, duh.

How come? Or that's why there is such a chaos among evangelicals, because there's no authority really.

They need someone who can help. Currently, elite evangelicals only seem capable of shaming young men and destroying the ones who harbor or struggle with unacceptable thoughts. There is a better way, though.

They are they don't have Jesus, right? I mean, that's pretty strong accusations. These people that are taking these stands against social justice. They're they're not on the right side. I mean, it's just there's so many disgusting things in this Mark Knowles 1994 book Evangelical the scandal of the evangelical mind is going to be re -released and he's gonna add stuff about apparently among other things Kovat.

I reject that. This is a lie. It�s not true. It�s liberalism, it�s socialism, and it�s a blending of the gospel. And once you put some word in front of evangelical, it�s over. Feminist evangelicalism, homosexual evangelicalism, Roman Catholic evangelicalism, white evangelicalism, black evangelicalism.

It does not take a detective to see that Christianity today, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Evangelical Theological Society have all drifted from the biblical roots in an attempt to seek relevance and approval.

That's how it feels, right? And I've had to ask myself why is that and I have a number of I Guess more academic approaches to this. I I see new evangelicalism is a big problem. I see going back to revivalism as a big problem and Reading ourselves of liturgy and tradition and you know tradition is not the final authority, but it certainly is an authority and there are far too many evangelicals who have taken the tact that tradition doesn't matter and They're biblicist in the sense that They think they can approach the Bible on their own With their own views and just render a correct interpretation and With their own knowledge and wisdom and they don't need the wisdom of the past to shine a light and That's something that I've rejected.

Wouldn't you agree, though, that that desire to get the culture to love and appreciate us is a pathological cancer on the evangelical movement, on Big Eva? I mean, that's, I would say, perhaps the defining mark of Big Eva.

Well, it's like I say, are you an evangelical when you can't tell me what the evangel is? If you don't know what the good news is, how can you be an evangelical?

There is a there is quite a range in evangelical. The word is getting harder and harder.

I'm going to show you the clips from Robert Morris in a moment, but it's sad that you have to wait until there's this huge scandal. We should nip things in the bud when a false teacher comes out, denies scripture, denies the exclusivity of Christ, teaches that Jesus stopped being God or something.

It's it's an extension of what the neo evangelicals were trying to build and now I would suggest it it's starting to crumble in ways and so you have a Big Eva and then I've heard this before you have a Little Eva and so Big Eva right some of the organizations I just mentioned Little Eva perhaps being like the G3 conference to some extent and Founders Ministries to some extent and I don't know maybe certain aspects of Ligonier or Grace to You and some of these organizations have been around for a while so it's not like they're anything new but there's there's a new energy in in some of these organizations and it's because of the split that's happening because people are conservatives especially political conservatives but also theological conservatives that understand the threat of social justice are starting to realize how these Big Eva groups have sold out on this issue and how it compromises theology and so they've ended up starting to associate in a different place in a different area in a different conferences and new publishing houses are getting started.