Would you consider this person an evangelical?

[ilikeverin]

Does he try to convert anyone and everyone?

If yes, yes, he is.
If no, no, he is not.

(Is he from the South?  This will change my answer... Southern Methodists are typically quite evangelical)

[ilikeverin]

Ilikeverin, what you smoking? It's not an insulting term, or shouldn't be. It's like Socialism, or Fascism, Republican, or Democrat. Just a word that, while having emotionally charged nuance to some, needn't be an insulting word to anyone.

While I never said that right out, congrats, you got my [not-so-]subtle undertone

Yes, I think evangelicalism (I doubt that's a word ) is a bad thing, because, to me, it suggests that you think your religion is out-and-out superior to another, not just different.

[ilikeverin]

Sure, we can preach, but it seems to me that most evangelicals, while saying how good Christianity is, also say how bad the person's current religion is.  Or how they're atheist and are thus going to Hell.  Or some such.

(Anyway, I'm with Dibble on this one)

[ilikeverin]

Ilikeverin, what you smoking? It's not an insulting term, or shouldn't be. It's like Socialism, or Fascism, Republican, or Democrat. Just a word that, while having emotionally charged nuance to some, needn't be an insulting word to anyone.

While I never said that right out, congrats, you got my [not-so-]subtle undertone

Yes, I think evangelicalism (I doubt that's a word ) is a bad thing, because, to me, it suggests that you think your religion is out-and-out superior to another, not just different.

How can one be a part of any religion at all, whether Jewish, Catholic, Protestant or just all around "Christian", unless they believe it to be the "most correct"?

I never said I don't believe it's the 'most correct'.  I said I don't think there is a 'best' religion.

Until proven otherwise, I think Methodism is the 'most correct' religion, but I don't want to force that on other people.

[ilikeverin]

I have a confession to make. The guy's name isn't Steve, it's George. He was born in Connecticut, moved to Texas, and now he lives in Washington D.C.(1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to be exact).

Still think he isn't evangelical?

Bush is a Methodist in Name Only. He goes to the United Methodist Church, but he's no true fit in the national United Methodist Church at all.  The early Methodists were more fundamentalist and fanatical and that tradition is where Bush belongs. John Wesley was an evangelical Methodist. Those kind of Methodists have left the church now and are in other denominations.  Bush is an evangelical. He's not a Methodist, though. Bush is a Southern Baptist like Billy Graham.

The early Methodists were Evangelical (in the old sense) but certainly wouldn't have shared Bush's political views. More in the morning. Need sleep now.

Weren't the African Americans in some slave uprising going to kill all the whites except for the Quakers and the Methodists in the area because we opposed slavery?