Tangent to the Haggard story: I just read a report in the LA Times with a video link to one of the local LA stations on the Ted Haggard story. They called Haggard an “evangelist”. Now, I confess to not knowing a bunch about the guy, but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t an evangelist. He is an evangelical though.
The media can’t seem to keep these terms straight. I remember hearing a story on NPR about the Pope (can’t remember which one) being evangelical. Ha! I wish. I think they mean that he was evangelistic as in reaching out to others.
Just for clarity sake. Evangelistic/evangelist: the process of or one who propagates the gospel and calls people to faith in Christ and has noteworthy success.
Evangelical: A broadly defined term that essentially includes all Protestants who believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures.
Back to the media frenzy already in progress…