A community of Reformed, Holiness, Anabaptist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and other traditions.
- Conversionism - lives need to be transformed through a born-again experience and life long process of following Jesus
- Activism - the expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and social reform efforts
- Biblicism - a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate authority
- Crucicentrism - A stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as making possible the redemption of humanity
NAE and LifeWay Research identify evangelicals with four statements:
- The Bible is the highest authority for what I believe
- It is very important for me personally to encourage non-Christians to trust Jesus Christ as their Savior
- Jesus Christ's death on the cross is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of my sin
- Only those who trust in Jesus Christ alone as their Savior receive God's free gift of eternal salvation
(https://www.nae.org/what-is-an-evangelical/)
Inerrancy
Evangelicals acknowledge the Bible is human as well as divine. A substantial group (many British and German evangelicals) are disinterested in inerrancy or outright reject it, preferring "infallibility" or "absolute trustworthiness."
Liberals reject the supernatural element of the Bible, finding both inerrancy and infallibilty alien to the secular spirit of the age. Liberals affirm Jesus Christ, not the doctrine of Scripture or biblical infallibility, is the central reality of the Christian faith.
Mediating views are somewhere in-between. "Separatist" evangelical leaders have expressed suspicion that evangelicals like Clark S. Pinnock took a mediating position to gain or maintain acceptance in liberal theological circles.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. THe Inerrancy and Infallibility of the Bible by Harold O. J. Brown. Pages 46-47.)