A group of evangelical churches, organizations and seminaries will meet next week at Wheaton College to discuss the future of evangelism under President Donald Trump’s White House.
“It is an attempt to try and show how we should be thinking in such a way that our theology is what is the central concern versus our political commitments,” said Darrell Bock, executive director of cultural engagement at Dallas Theological Seminary.
The meeting is invite-only and about 50 pastors, activists and other religious leaders will attend. According to The Washington Post, pastor Tim Keller and New York City megachurch pastor A.R. Bernard are among those attending.
Bock said the group will mostly be “national leaders,” but there would also be at least one leader representing every continent in the world.
Among those reportedly attending are Fuller Seminary President Mark Labberton, former Wesleyan Church General Superintendent Jo Anne Lyon, North Carolina Bishop Claude Alexander, Wheaton College’s Ed Stetzer, Harold Smith of Christianity Today, World Relief’s Jenny Yang and Gabriel Salguero of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.
Doug Birdsall, honorary chair of the Lausanne movement of evangelicals, a global movement of evangelical leader, said politics is not the focus of the meeting but it is what he called “the elephant in the…
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