pbasch

Wonderful website, and interesting comments. I am not a Christian (or religious, or believing, of any kind), and I have had only a few encounters (as few as two, if I'm remembering right...) with people who let me know that they were evangelical.

My small understanding is that the "evangelical" portion of Evangelical Christianity describes the drive to spread the word. It does not (as far as I know) describe any particular doctrine, other than that.

Christians who are not evangelical are (presumably) content to practice their faith and leave others alone, to seek and stumble and fail and succeed in whatever way their culture and personality leads them.

Is that more or less how it works?