Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God

Name: Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God
Brand: Eerdmans
SKU: 884664
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Author: Jeff Mikels & Joel Lawrence
ISBN: 9780802884664

By: Jeff Mikels & Joel Lawrence

Eerdmans / 2025 / Paperback

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Title: Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God
By: Jeff Mikels & Joel Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Eerdmans
Publication Date: 2025

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0802884660
ISBN-13: 9780802884664
Stock No: WW884664

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"I’m a pastor who is guilty of perpetuating the worship of idols."

Like many people today, Jeff Mikels is concerned by the evangelical church’s embrace of cultural and political idols. Unlike many people, however, Mikels is a former evangelical pastor who regrets his complicity in this trend.

Evangelical Idolatry: How Pastors Like Me Have Failed the People of God is both a confession and a call to repentance. Reflecting on his twenty-year pastoral ministry with candor and humility, Mikels acknowledges the ways he enabled parishioners to develop destructive loyalties to cultural and political idols. As he works to reform his own worldview and embrace allegiance to Christ alone, he urges evangelical pastors and laypeople to join him in reforming their faith and living out the good news of the true gospel.

Author Bio

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Jeff Mikels holds degrees from Wheaton College and Denver Seminary. He has over twenty years of pastoral experience, leading a church in Chicago for five years before planting one in Lafayette, Indiana. There, he was involved in the Pastors’ Alliance; he also helped establish the Greater Lafayette Gospel Association, which is a network of gospel-focused ministries, and served as its president.

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The Christian Century
“There is much to commend in this book. . . . May help some evangelicals to begin resisting harmful ideologies or dismantling idols.”

“Wise and often incisive, Evangelical Idolatry gently leads readers to ask whether something unbiblical—indeed, idolatrous—has found its way into the movement’s culture and even its view of God. By reexamining painful experiences and mistakes he made as a pastor, Mikels lays bare the ways evangelicalism has lost the thread of the gospel narrative and calls evangelicals back to the God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ.”
—Joel Looper, author of Another Gospel: Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity