Stanley Hauerwas On His Evangelical Audience

Considering that Evangelicals have produced some of the realities that Dr. Hauerwas has spent a career resisting (pietism, 'personal relationships with Jesus,' church growth, etc.), he discusses his Evangelical audience with Wunderkammer Magazine.
www.wunderkammermag.com
Interview conducted by Dan Morehead. Videographer: J.M. Harper. Producer: David Michael

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Yes.
I am a Recovering Evangelical, so I've been there and done that. It's true. The reaction against waiting upon the graces of flawed human beings to bestow forgiveness or whatever upon you has driven the extreme rejection of "receiving" God or Truth or whatever you think you can just "make up". Extreme flaws beget extreme flaws. Nuthin new there. Question is:
How do we avoid extreme flaws in general without being so luke-warm that we give Jesus the dry heaves?

[@BrendtWaters]

@uhmerikangeezus Oh puhleeeeeze. We evangelicals invented pigeon-holing and dividing the body into pieces. It's practically our raison d'être.

[@Matiyahu]

Waaaay too much scripture pointing to the necessity, let alone reality, of a personal relationship with Christ for Hauerwas's position to hold up.