Questions for Discussion
1. What problems arise in trying to define who is an evangelical? Can any Protestant, Roman Catholic, or Orthodox be an evangelical? Can a person be a Christian and not be an evangelical?
2. Does evangelical describe people or theology or both? Defend your answer.
3. Why have evangelical Christians not devoted more energy to the study of ecclesiology (the doctrine of the Church)? What are some of the bad effects of this?
4. What are the main differences between the Old Covenant and the New? How do these differences affect biblical ecclesiology?
5. What is the meaning of the assertion that the church "is the exemplification of the running tension between the already and the not yet"? What are the practical implications of this for the church?
6. What steps can be taken to deepen worship in evangelical churches?
7. What governs when and to what extent evangelicals cooperate with nonevangelicals who call themselves Christians?
