Who am I?

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Date: 17 May 2006 06:43:49

Regular readers will now that I struggle with the 'E' word and am forever trying to distance myself from it.

However, I am starting to come to the conclusion that in trying to disassociate myself from the 'E' word totally I am engaging in a negative act which involves trying to say that I don't come from that cultural group, when clearly through my growing up within evangelical churches and still attending one, I do.

What I need to do is disassociate myself from the practices, ideas and prejudices found within that community with which I disagree and recognise the other important cultural influences I have. However, I also realise the debt of gratitute I owe to evangelicalism for making me who I am today. There are lots of good things about most of the evangelicals and evangelical churches and denying this is just buying into the stereotypes which exist and denying my own cultural experience and denying the power of God in those churches.

So if I'm asked I might just have to swallow hard and say yes I am an evangelical (sort of).