13 Facts About Evangelical

Evangelical churches have been involved in the establishment of elementary and secondary schools.

Term "Open Evangelical" refers to a particular Christian school of thought or churchmanship, primarily in Great Britain .

Evangelical revivalism imbued ordinary men and women with a confidence and enthusiasm for sharing the gospel and converting others outside of the control of established churches, a key discontinuity with the Protestantism of the previous era.

Evangelical described receiving assurance of God's grace after a period of fasting, self-examination, and despair over his sins.

Evangelical preachers emphasized personal salvation and piety more than ritual and tradition.

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Evangelical clergy networked together through societies such as the Eclectic Society in London and the Elland Society in Yorkshire.

In Nigeria the Evangelical Church Winning All is the largest church organization with five thousand congregations and over three million members.

In Kenya, mainstream Evangelical denominations have taken the lead in promoting political activism and backers, with the smaller Evangelical sects of less importance.

Daniel arap Moi was president 1978 to 2002 and claimed to be an Evangelical; he proved intolerant of dissent or pluralism or decentralization of power.

The rich and the poor remained traditional Catholics, while most Evangelical Protestants were in the new lower-middle class–known as the "C class" .

Evangelical escalated the war against leftist guerrilla insurgents as a holy war against atheistic "forces of evil".

Recurrent themes within American Evangelical discourse include abortion, evolution denial, secularism, and the notion of the United States as a Christian nation.

Particularly controversial doctrine within the Evangelical Churches is that of prosperity theology, which spread in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, mainly through Pentecostal and charismatic televangelists.