Is this the biggest threat to evangelicalism today?

Russell Moore  |  Features
Date posted:  23 May 2025
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Is this the biggest threat to evangelicalism today?

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Any organisation— business, ministry, school, whatever —typically asks what the biggest threats are to its mission. The assumption behind that exercise is that the most dangerous obstacles are those that one never sees coming.

Consider for a moment that the biggest threat to evangelical Christianity might not be any of those about which we argue and strategise — not secularisation or sexuality debates or political captivity, or institutional collapse or perpetual scandals or fragmentation and polarisation.

What if all of these are just symptoms of the most perilous threat to the church since the Reformation? What if that threat is, quite literally, right in front of our eyes?

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