Covenantal Christians
posted: November 19, 2007 | category: faith
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From Zack Exley at “Revolution in Jesusland,” re: “progressive evangelicals” v. “liberal Christians:”
“As I thought about it, I realized that every sermon I’ve ever heard at one of these Bible-based churches were about a sacrifice that you have to make for God. They’re about sacrificing for your kids, your spouse, your community, the poor…and to God. All those various sacrifices are all sacrifices you’re making to God, because, for example, by sacrificing for the poor, you’re obeying God’s commands.
It is that sacrificial attitude that unites all these Christians who might fall under these various labels: Emergent, Red-Letter, Bible-centered, Evangelical and even maybe Fundamentalist.
If you add up all those groups, they are massively diverse in their theological and political belief systems, but they pretty much all have one thing in common: they believe that God is inviting humanity into a new covenant—one aiming at peace and justice and—and they are desperately trying to live up to it.
So from now on, I’m going to call these Christians “Covenantal Christians.” It’s a big relief to finally have a term that might describe everyone I’m writing about on this blog from extremely progressive Emergent or Red Letter Christians to very conservative Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians.”
I like.
Incidentally, members at the evangelical church I attend are called “covenantors.”
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