You cannot be both

There is an enormous schism occurring in American Christianity as significant as the Protestant Reformation.

The quest for political power and money has driven those churches called evangelicals to a place where they are no longer recognizable as Christian. They honor the same scriptures with their lips, but their hearts are far from their origins.

Evangelicalism is emerging as a new religion as distinguishable from Christianity as Judaism and Islam.

As a daughter said to her mother, “Mom, I’ve decided to become an evangelical Christian,” to which the mother replied, “You’ll have to decide, Dear. You can’t be both.”

GENE REID

Little Rock