The blogosphere was set ablaze over the past week with the publishing of InternetMonk’s article on “The Coming Evangelical Collapse” in the Christian Science Monitor.

You can read the CSM article here.
The original post from Michael Spencer, a.k.a. Internet Monk, can be found here, here, and here.

Michael postulates about the demise of evangelicalism and the rapid onset of a post-Christian western world. He declares that the party’s almost over for evangelicals. The collapse will be heralded by the ending of thousands of ministries, the decline and influence of Christian media, and the unemployment of ministers, missionaries and Christian workers.

Michael does not consider himself a prophet or futurist but here is his grim outlook from the InternetMonk post:

I believe this evangelical collapse will happen with astonishing statistical speed; that within two generations of where we are now evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its current occupants, leaving in its wake nothing that can revitalize evangelicals to their former “glory.”

It’s important to point out that there is a monumental difference between Western evangelicalism and true Biblical Christianity, a point I will outline in my next post along with my commentary on InternetMonk’s predictions and assumptions. Stay tuned!