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Evangelicalism is like a swimming bath. Most noise at the shallow end. --J Blanchard

More people go to discos than to high opera, and one of the courageous things about evangelicals is their ability to embrace bad taste for the sake of the gospel. - Richard Holloway, quoted in Grove Booklet Ev 59 'Preaching for the Unchurched' p 17

It attracted a following of people who were ahead of their time: the pre-post-evangelical. --Simon Jenkins

In particular, it is important to insist that obscurantism in all its forms is wholly out of keeping with true Evangelicalism. The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for the knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith. He is called to love God with all his mind; and part of what this means is that, when confronted by those who, on professedly rational grounds, take exception to historical Christianity he must set himself not merely to deplore or denounce them, but to out-think them ... If present day Evangelicals fall short of this, they are false to their own principles and heritage. --Fundamentalism' and the Word of God, J.I. Packer, 1996 Ed., p. 34

We must say that if evangelicals are to be evangelicals, we must not compromise our view of Scripture. There is no use in evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core -- namely, the Scriptures.
Francis Schaeffer, No Final Conflict

Here is the great evangelical disaster:the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this:accommodation. The evangelical church is worldly and not faithful to the living Christ. If the truth of the Christian faith is in fact truth, then it stands in antithesis to the ideas and the immorality of our age, and it must be practiced both in teaching and practical action. Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but it must be confrontation nonetheless.-- Francis Schaeffer

If the spirit of Puritanism was best represented graphically by a preacher in an elevated pulpit, the arm raised in vigorous punctuation upon the truth of God, that of modern evangelicalism is probably best represented today by the ubiquitous happy face, a bright smile beckoning smiles in return
David Wells, God in the Wasteland