“The Bible doesn’t give us a blueprint,” said Rachel Held Evans to a group of about sixty students and adults gathered in a classroom at the College of William and Mary Sunday, February 10th. “Instead, the Bible gives us history and traditions, and stories and proverbs and poetry, well mostly stories. And stories don’t fit very well into a blueprint,” she explained. “The fact that it’s not a blueprint; that’s what brings us into community with one another.”
Evans, a self-described “evangelical” blogger and writer with a rapidly growing following was invited to speak at W&M by the college’s Wesley Foundation, a campus ministry sponsored by the United Methodist Church. She also preached Sunday morning across the street at Williamsburg United Methodist Church.
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coming from a family of maternal and paternal Presbyterians, PCUSA and PCA, with a few Luthe-Palians and a Roman Catholic as well, I don’t much relate to the Dayton, Tennessee pendulum swing from fundy to liberal. I understand it from the standpoint of Newton…to every action, there’s an equal but opposite reaction.
What an overworked theme: country come to town. Sorry for the downer there, but that’s my perspective.
Rachel is a perfect example of “misery loves company”. She is not an evangelical by belief and is liberal in outlook yet not only wants to retain and redefine the name “evangelical”, she wants to reimagine all evangelicals into her way of thinking. Sorry sis, instead of taking modern culture and making the bible fit into it, we should be taking our culture and going back to the “blueprint” God sets up for us in the bible, even if it offends your “enlightened” lifestyle. She seems like she wants to infect evangelicals and divide us.