I see many evangelicals on here incredibly frustrated by the state of their churches. The problem is that it's not going to get any better. Starting more parachurch ministries won't fix anything, as it led to the atomization that made their churches vulnerable in the first place.

When you have a low view of the church as a voluntary associated of people who like Jesus it's incredibly easy to undermine. Most evangelicals don't have a strong attachment to their churches and turnover is high. I know from experience.

What evangelicals need to do is set aside their presuppositions like Sola Scriptura and fear of "catholic stuff" and take a serious look at Orthodoxy, especially ROCOR and AOA which are conservative and highly resistant to cultural and theological liberalism.

The problem is that the very DNA of Protestantism and evangelicalism inclines them toward constant revolution and changing of their beliefs. Conservatives in the churches try to hold their ground, but the whole edifice is sliding downhill in a centuries-long mudslide.

Cuck churches like the Episcopal "church" and ELCA are not an abandonment of apostolic faith, but the natural end state of Protestant epistemology and ecclesiology. An honest look at the history and development of Protestantism makes this unnerving conclusion clear.

I see the same "this far, but no farther!" phenomenon in intellectual Christian circles as well. They approach Christian tradition with skepticism, distrusting lives of the saints, church councils, and patristic writings. But the Bible is reliable! And they dig in there.

But liberal theology is the natural progression of the mindset that led to the rejection of those parts of Christian tradition. John Shelby Spong is the end product of Protestant epistemology.

There are uncanny parallels with the failed American Conservative movement.

To paraphrase Buckley, an Evangelical is a fellow who is standing athwart Protestant history yelling 'Stop!'

I don't say any of this to diss my evangelical friends, of which I have many. But I do want to encourage you to take a very hard look at your tradition and where its fruits have led; and then compare to the Orthodox tradition which has resisted liberalism and theological change.

By the way, just ignore the Ecumenical Patriarch and his toadies like Elpidophoros in the Greek Archdiocese of America. Contrary to what they want you to think, they are not the standard-bearers of Orthodoxy and the other jurisdictions are strongly opposed to them.