Here’s a great post from Andrew Perriman on what it means to be evangelical:
It seems to me that for the church now to be genuinely evangelical it needs to articulate a good news with the same socio-political scope as the “good news” that Jesus proclaimed to Israel or the “good news” that Paul proclaimed to the pagan world about Israel. In what sense now is the story of the people of God, as it struggles to recover an integrity and clarity of purpose after the assault made upon it by the forces of modernity, good news for the world? What can we honestly say about what God is currently and visibly doing in the church that constitutes an effective and compelling challenge to a world that from Babel onwards has pursued the course of imperial self-aggrandisement and repudiation of the goodness of the Creator? That comes across perhaps as a rather bloated question, but I think it gets at the heart of the issue of evangelical identity. To be evangelical is to find one’s place in the continuing story of the troubled existence of God’s new creation people in the midst of the nations.