And I think the best way to change a culture is to seed it with holy people. I think what's made Evangelicalism less effective than it might be is a tendency to dream of big cultural-impact projects, rather than the humbler route of turning out millions of transformed, humble, holy people.
Nicely put. I think we are all on the same basic page. And I would add that along with Gnostic tendencies, evangelicals have been hurt by “salvation inflation” — a temptation to define “transformed, humble, holy people” in the most “nice” and inclusive way possible to mean, essentially, well intentioned but virtually indistinguishable (and certainly manageable) citizens of late liberal modernity.
