From Confessions of a Bog-Standard Evangelical:
I am not in the game of bashing evangelicals and evangelicalism – humanly speaking, I owe everything, almost all my theology, and much of my Christian nurture to such people. It wasn’t the confessional Presbyterians who told me the gospel; it wasn’t the confessional Lutherans who took the time to teach me the basics of the faith; it was the evangelicals. They cared enough to reach out to me and engage me. Yet evangelicalism at an institutional level seems to have been hijacked, not by the kind of decent, orthodox people who taught me the faith, but by a group of people who are happy to use the institutions and the market of evangelicalism to give themselves a power base, but who seem to despise precisely the kind of basic evangelicalism which I have loved and to which I owe so much.
I’ve been increasingly coming across sentiments such as the one quoted above. The church I attend falls under the evangelical umbrella (does being a non-denominational church automatically make it evangelical?). Although I’m not sure what “institutional level” means since evangelicalism is such a nebulous group, I do agree that there are some elements that have entered the fold and smuggled in ideas that are far from the heart of the gospel.