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And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, "It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of robbers." (Matthew 21:12, 13)

A kind of bidding war is heating up for the identity and loyalty of the evangelical Church. Like suitors wooing a prospective bride, proponents of three schools of thought are competing for the affections of this segment of the Body of Christ. Each claims to provide the best hope for her future, the most promising path to prosperity and fulfillment. Each hopes to convince evangelical believers that it has discovered the Church's proper identity. And each is working hard to woo and win evangelical church leaders to its camp and campaign.

There is in this a sense of the evangelical Church's needing to be cleansed. Something has gone wrong in that movement that arose in the......

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