Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God
Ebook
“I’m a pastor who is guilty of perpetuating the worship of idols.”
Like many people today, Jeff Mikels is concerned by the evangelical church’s embrace of cultural and political idols. Unlike many people, however, Mikels is a former evangelical pastor who regrets his complicity in this trend.
Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God is both a confession and a call to repentance. Reflecting on his twenty-year pastoral ministry with candor and humility, Mikels acknowledges the ways he enabled parishioners to develop destructive loyalties to cultural and political idols. As he works to reform his own worldview and embrace allegiance to Christ alone, he urges evangelical pastors and laypeople to join him in reforming their faith and living out the good news of the true gospel.
“Wise and often incisive, Evangelical Idolatry gently leads readers to ask whether something unbiblical—indeed, idolatrous—has found its way into the movement’s culture and even its view of God. By reexamining painful experiences and mistakes he made as a pastor, Mikels lays bare the ways evangelicalism has lost the thread of the gospel narrative and calls evangelicals back to the God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ.”
—Joel Looper, author of Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity
- Title: Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God
- Authors: Joel Lawrence, Jeff Mikels
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781467468923, 9780802884664, 0802884660, 1467468924
- Resource ID: LLS:9781467468923
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-13T01:05:03Z
Jeff Mikels holds degrees from Wheaton College and Denver Seminary. He has over twenty years of pastoral experience, leading a church in Chicago for five years before planting one in Lafayette, Indiana. There, he was involved in the Pastors’ Alliance; he also helped establish the Greater Lafayette Gospel Association, which is a network of gospel-focused ministries, and served as its president.