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What evangelicals in North America call Christianity is, ironically,
largely disconnected from Jesus as he appears in the four Gospels. I
have argued for the past decade that American Christianity has evolved
into a movement that Jesus would not recognize if he were to show up
next Sunday. And it’s not just the rituals and assumptions and values
that are off-base. The spirituality itself that comes out of
contemporary Christianity is largely unrelated to Jesus. You don’t have
to believe me; all you need do is look at the statistics on who attends
church, who used to attend, and who swears they will never attend
again. Thousands, and possibly millions, of people are walking away
from any association with the religion known as traditional
Christianity.[<a
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id="identifier_0_3352" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link"
title="Michael Spencer, Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality (Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, 2010), 24-25.">1</a>]<br>
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"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it
tougher for sober people to own cars." - Unknown
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