hat name in 1215. Another key problem with the fundamentalist movement is the confusion of pagan practice for pagan worship, or the re-adaptation of pagan practice into Christian worship for the Christian God. St. Paul explained to the Corinthian people that is was now acceptable for them to eat meat that had once been used to offer sacrifice to idols, because, "we know that an idol has no real existence, and that there is no God but one God." (1 Cor 8:4). He taught that Christians could now eat meat that was once offered to pagan gods, because they did not believe pagan gods or the tribute owed to them (Romans 14). The Evangelical movement is the fastest growing movement of Christianity. Combine the missionary efforts of the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and you have the Evangelical Church. They seem to be always on the move, going from city to city, state to state, nation to nation, continent to continent, armed with only a Bible and a lot of commitment. Even though the Catholic Church is by far the largest church of Christianity, and has the most converts per denomination per year, she has not had the same social impact on both national and world society as the Evangelical movement has. How has the Catholic Church seemed to slip away and allow the Evangelical Church to move in? How does a church with the full deposit of faith, truth, and grace of Jesus Christ seem to fall through the cracks when a movement with much division and controversy, rise up? It is for the simple fact that the Evangelical is using the same missionary methods as the Catholic Church once had. The same spirit of Evangelism today is the same spirit that was in the hearts of such men as St. Dominic and St. Benedict. But what has changed is the Evangelical view of a radical, "holiness" relationship with Jesus- a one on one approach. The Evangelical movement has abandoned the elevation of the clergy as spiritual authority, ...
