Fundies, Hymns, & Gospeling

Scot McKnight is spot-on in this article about “lifestyle” versus “verbal” evangelism:

Is a life that embodies what Christ calls us to a gospeling event? I'd like to say we are treading here onto turf that gets farther and farther away from what “gospeling” means in the New Testament. The NT terms about gospeling are verbal terms and not behavior terms.

What I fear is that so many contend that behavior alone or community alone are evangelism. I doubt it, because, as Paul puts it in Romans 10, if they don't hear how will they know? The ineradicable form of evangelism is to declare the Story of Jesus. All other dimensions gain their only clarity once that declaration is clear. Without that proclamation, there is no gospeling or gospel

Fernando Ortega advises hymn writers to “avoid convenience:”

Be specific when you write songs about God. Avoid cliché. Avoid convenience. Avoid an obsession with the consumer. Avoid the temptation to make commercial success your central goal. Write with intelligence, employing all the craft, skill, and experience with which God has endowed you

Kevin Bauder's eight characteristics of hyper-fundamentalism:

Hyper-fundamentalism is not fundamentalism. It is as a parasite on the fundamentalist movement. For many years it was simply a nuisance, largely ignored by mainstream fundamentalists. Ignoring the problem, however, permitted it to grow. While statistics are not available, hyper-fundamentalists now constitute a significant percentage of self-identified fundamentalists, perhaps even a majority. They have become the noisiest and often the most visible representatives of fundamentalism. They may be the only version of fundament