evangelism always in mind—from the outside in, again, in an attempt to make the gospel’s relevance obvious to all. The patron saint of traditional evangelical churches could be said to be the late Billy Graham (or perhaps one of several other great evangelists of the present or preceding generation). Again, the motive is to be successful in evangelism, with the local church treated as a stationary evangelistic rally. Actually, the “traditional” evangelical church in America is much like the seeker-sensitive
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