Evangelical Shortcomings
One 2020 survey found that 30 percent of American “evangelicals” believe that Jesus is not God; 65 percent believe he is instead the first being created by God; 46 percent believe the Holy Spirit is a force, not a person; and in any case, 23 percent feel that belief is a matter of opinion, not objective truth.1 One might quibble with such statistics, but there can be doubt that large numbers of self-confessed “evangelicals” in the United States are not robustly evangelical in their beliefs.
