What is evangelical unity? Does it even matter?

What is evangelical unity and does it matter? And anyway, who’s to say what an evangelical actually is, and even then, what would visible evangelical unity look like?

That was part of our discussion at the autumn meeting of the Affinity Council – a group of leaders from churches and Christian organisations that help guide Affinity as we set our priorities.

As we considered the topic together it was clear that the evangelical landscape is complex, to say the least. There are what we might call isolated evangelicals, who have a very limited set of connections with other churches, and lament what is happening in most of the so-called evangelical churches. Then we have the conservative evangelicals of which Affinity members would be an example, along with the Gospel Partnerships and conferences like Word Alive, and probably most of the readers of en!