Division and vision among evangelicals

I was recently in an email dialogue with a friend in ministry. He was asking me about my thoughts on division within the evangelical church in the USA. It’s a tricky topic. One person’s division is another’s valiant stand for truth.

One aspect of this challenging topic is adopting the correct analysis. It’s always perilous to postulate solutions before you have correctly identified the problem, or provide treatment before you have an accurate diagnosis. What exactly is going on? There are a number of different factors at work.

1. Scale
   
   First of all, there is the sheer scale of American evangelicalism. By nature of its size, the movement is far more likely to be fragmented than the similar movement in Britain.