Dr. Russell Moore presents a great little comparison the terms “evangelical” and “fundamental” using the filter of Halloween. If you have a hard time understanding the nuances in these christian circles, I think this helps. And it is pretty accurate!

See the original article here.

The Halloween spectrum within Evangelical Christianity:

• An evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for Halloween.
• A conservative evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for the church’s “Fall Festival.”
• A confessional evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up as Zwingli and Bucer for “Reformation Day.”
• A revivalist evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up as demons and angels for the church’s Judgment House community evangelism outreach.
• An Emerging Church evangelical is a fundamentalist who has no kids, but who dresses up for Halloween anyway.
• A fundamentalist is a fundamentalist whose kids hand out gospel tracts to all those mentioned above.