10 Facts About Evangelicals

Evangelicals, there are three interrelated meanings to the term worship.

Main Christian feasts celebrated by the Evangelicals are Christmas, Pentecost and Easter for all believers.

Whereas the Puritans had held that assurance is rare, late and the fruit of struggle in the experience of believers, the Evangelicals believed it to be general, normally given at conversion and the result of simple acceptance of the gift of God.

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

Evangelicals believed activism in government and the social sphere was an essential method in reaching the goal of eliminating sin in a world drenched in wickedness.

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New York crusade did not cause the division between the old Fundamentalists and the New Evangelicals; that had been signaled by the nearly simultaneous founding of the NAE and McIntire's American Council of Christian Churches 15 years earlier.

From 1960 to 2000, the global growth of the number of reported Evangelicals grew three times the world's population rate, and twice that of Islam.

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

The National Association of Evangelicals formed in 1942 as a counterpoise to the mainline Federal Council of Churches.

Evangelicals have been socially active throughout US history, a tradition dating back to the abolitionist movement of the Antebellum period and the prohibition movement.