As members of the Church, we're not evangelicals nor even Protestants, although the cultural heritage of America is overwhelmingly Protestant, and therefore the fortunes and tides of Christianity in America and our cultural perception of it are therefore closely tied. While it may take a while for you to see how this is relevant to us, I think that there's a lot of good information in it that is parallel to what's happening in our Church.
While our leadership is led by inspiration, of course, I don't discount the possibility of occasional inspiration of other good men outside of the Church to bring about as much good as possible to people outside of the Church, and of course the general sway of these big movements Renn describes applies quite well to the general membership of the Church and maybe offers some predictions on who will struggle with what as the ongoing sifting of sheep and the goats; the wheat and the tares continues among the membership. I recommend the patience to read the whole article and the thoughtfulness to see how it applies to us rather than dismiss it as being all about some other Christian denominations and therefore irrelevant to us. I don't think that it is, although the conclusions will necessarily be a little different.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/02/the-three-worlds-of-evangelicalism
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