A month ago at the 2010 Q gathering in Chicago, I had the privilege of joining a panel of leaders interviewed by ABC News discussing the “New Face of Evangelicalism.” This interview, which aired this past Sunday on ABC World News, shows the remarkable movement of young Christians passionate about addressing the world’s problems. (You can see a longer, though still abbreviated, version of the interview here.)
ABC did a good job reporting the story of how young Christians are approaching contemporary problems. But any hour-long conversation that’s edited down to a few minutes is going to leave something out. In this case, the film left on the cutting room floor showed what motivates the people on our panel. It’s not the delusion that we can perfect the world; American Christianity has gone down that road before, and in the end the world wasn’t fixed and we lost our focus on Jesus Christ.
Rather, what drives us is the desire to be a comprehensively faithful presence in the church, culture, and nation where God has placed us. This passion was at the heart of my conversion (I’ve written that story here, if you’re interested) and it remains a core value of the Two Futures Project mission.
Though we at the Two Futures Project are focused 100% on the elimination of nuclear weapons, we’re also proud to be a part of a greater labor: the never-ending pursuit of fidelity for the church. If you’re similarly inspired, I hope you’ll share this email with your friends. Thanks for joining with us in this work of witness.
Yours,
Tyler
