ALLELON Ministries - The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

Another great quote from Sider's article.

Unfaithful evangelical lifestyles are a blatant denial of Jesus’ Gospel. If the Gospel were merely the forgiveness of sins, then we could accept the Gospel and go on living in the same racist, adulterous, materialistic way. But if the Gospel is the Good News of the kingdom, as Jesus taught, and if that means that part of the Gospel is that right now a new redeemed community of transformed persons living in the power of the Holy Spirit is breaking into history, then whenever so-called Christians live like the world, their very lives are evidence against Jesus’ teaching that the kingdom is now breaking into history.