Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.
Russell D. MooreFor too long, weโve called unbelievers to โinvite Jesus into your life.โ Jesus doesnโt want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isnโt boring or purposeless or static. Itโs wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.
Russell D. MooreI think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.
Russell D. MooreWe have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.
Russell D. Moore