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“What is New Evangelicalism ?”
by Art Sadlier
September 28th, 2016

I suspect that there has never been term more misunderstood than this one. I believe we can now drop the term and just use the term Evangelical. I believe that most of that which comes under the term Evangelical is now thoroughly New Evangelical.

The Philadelphian / Fundamental Church is now just a remnant in the world and the Laodicean / Evangelical Church is now in its hour of ascendancy. The transition from Fundamentalism to Evangelicalism began to take place in the 1950’s and the transition took place rather quickly.

When the body becomes diseased, the disease produces many symptoms. It is of no value to treat the symptoms; we must find the source of the disease and root it out. Today, some are trying to reform New Evangelicalism, it cannot be reformed by dealing with the symptoms, it is terminal, it basically a denial of the essence what the church is to be, and It must be rejected altogether. The question then, is what is root cause of New Evangelicalism? I believe the root cause of New Evangelicalism is the determination on which the movement was founded, compromise.

The Root Cause is Compromise. The founder of the movement stated, "Neo-evangelicalism was born in 1948 in connection with a convocation address which I gave in the Civil Auditorium in Pasadena. While reaffirming the theological view of fundamentalism, this address repudiated its ecclesiology and its social theory. The ringing call for a repudiation of separatism and the summons to social involvement received a hearty response from many evangelicals. It differed from fundamentalism in its repudiation of separatism and its determination to engage itself in the theological dialogue of the day,” Dr. Harold Ockenga.

Ockenga was saying, abandon separation and get involved with the world. That is exactly what the Evangelical Church has done for the last 60 years, this error has now come to full fruition and such a Church cannot be reformed by dealing with the symptoms of its sickness, but must be abandoned. Separation is God’s remedy for apostasy, this is an unalterable principal in the New Testament, disobey it at your own peril. Failure to separate from New Evangelicalism has been the breeding ground for apostasy.

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Corinthians 6:17, 18.

The same doctrine is taught in passages such as Ephesians 5:11 which says, "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." It is the theme of 2 John, culminating in verses 10 and 11: "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

The New Testament calls for the believer to contend for the faith, it calls the believer to separate from the world and from ecclesiastical apostasy. We are warned that we will not be accepted by the world, that the world will hate us because it hated our Lord. We are told not to love the world but rather separate ourselves from the world. Down over the long centuries multitudes of followers of Christ were martyred for their separation from the world and for their contending for the truth of the Word of God. The apostles were martyred by a world that hates Christ and if we are true to the Apostles doctrine we will not be accepted by a world which has not changed.

In a press release dated December 8, 1957, Dr. Ockenga made the following statement: "The New Evangelicalism has changed its strategy from one of separation to one of infiltration.” That has again has been the strategy of the Evangelical Church for the last 60 years. When you wrap a mud ball in a white sheet, guess which one changes color? Today you cannot tell most of the Evangelical Church from the world, guess who has changed? Guess who has been infiltrated?

The change brought upon the church by New Evangelicalism, was not the neglect of a doctrine, but rather the departure from the very essence of what the church is to be. It was the abandonment of the church’s pilgrim nature. The church is a group called out from the world, called to be separate from the world.

We thank God for those Pastors and Churches that are still Fundamentalists; they are the remnant of the Philadelphian Church which will endure until the rapture. Find one and join it! Come out of Laodicea!

Today the Evangelical Church is in love with the world, it is trying to win the favour of the world. It is trying to draw the world into the place where it does not belong, into the church. It is in love with the world and the things of the world, it is in love with the pleasures of the world, and it is bringing the world and it`s music and it`s methods into the church. Instead of the church winning the world the world has won the church. There is nothing redeemable of such a church, it continues to slip further and further into apostasy and it must be separated from.

The New Evangelical Church, has determined to find acceptance with the world, and it has been largely successful, but in doing so, they have accepted the world, they have changed, not the world.

The Evangelical Church added the social gospel to the biblical gospel, and they have mixed in the gospel of easy-believism and they now have another gospel, which as Paul said, is not the gospel.

We are reminded of the warning to Laodicea, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.”Revelation 3:16.

And we are reminded of Matthew 24:5 where Jesus warned of the great last days deception, “For many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ (I am a minister of the gospel) and shall deceive many.”

In Matthew 7:21-22, Jesus said, (I believe, to Laodiceans) “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

In Revelation 18:4, Jesus said to those in the apostate church in that hour, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive of her plagues.”

John described Laodicea as a church that was blind and deceived; I believe that is a description of the Evangelical church of this very hour.

As Jeremiah stood on the threshold of the Old Testament “Day of the Lord”, so we stand on the threshold of the great final “Day of the Lord”, he said to the leaders of the people of God, on behalf of God. “Many Pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness ” (Jeremiah 12:10).

God judged Israel because they brought the world and the ways of the world into His House, Ezekiel 22:26, “Her priests have violated my law, and they have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean".

The most tragic story of our time is that multiplied millions of evangelicals who believe they are saved are not! When the trumpet sounds they will be cast into the tribulation period. We read about them in Matthew 7:21-23.

In the last 50 years there has been a transition among Evangelicals from Philadelphia to Laodicea. The transition has been so subtle that most Evangelicals are not even aware of what has happened. This is the great religious deception about which Jesus forewarned for the last days.

The Bible tells us about two “Day of the Lord” Judgments. In the Old Testament there was a ”Day of the Lord” judgment when the wrath of God fell upon those who thought they were God’s children and were not, it fell upon Israel.

I believe that we are standing on the threshold of the final great “Day of the Lord” judgment. I fear that the Evangelical Church stands in mortal danger.
As Jeremiah viewed the situation it broke his heart! “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!” (Jeremiah 9:1).

That’s how I feel as I look on the Evangelical Church today.

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13