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How are evangelicals different from mainline Protestants?

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How are evangelicals different from mainline Protestants?

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Many are not. But if one had to make a distinction, it would be (broadly speaking) that mainline Protestants are less assertive about wanting to know what you believe and letting you know what they believe. They tend to uphold a certain standard of privacy on these matters. Follow-up: Can a person be a Presbyterian, Methodist, or Episcopalian and be an evangelical? Of course! Many are. As noted in the book, evangelicalism is not a monolithic “bloc.” It is a river (of belief) that flows through all kinds of demographic landscapes, including Mainline Protestantism. Do evangelicals believe that everything in the Bible literally happened? Evangelicals believe the writers of the Bible, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, are telling the truth as they saw and experienced it and that they can be trusted. If these writers were going to make up incidents they recount in the Bible, it certainly would have had less holes, incongruities, and fewer messy situations. The Psalms say the

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