# How are evangelicals distinct from other Christians?

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**Created:** [January 29, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-evangelicals-distinct-from-other-christians/807747 "2018-01-29T17:52:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-evangelicals-distinct-from-other-christians/807747/101 "2018-02-22T04:07:41Z")

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Billy Graham died today. He was pretty much the epitome of an evangelical. If you want to understand evangelicalism, just look up Billy Graham. They basically should have his picture in the dictionary next to the word “evangelical.”

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-evangelicals-distinct-from-other-christians/807747/102 "2018-02-23T00:13:33Z")

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> [@asterion](#):
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> Lutherans practice infant baptism and accept the universality of the Sacrament. I think I’ve only ever seen one adult baptism performed in a Lutheran church and I assume that had to have been a conversion to Christianity as a whole (I was a child and didn’t ask). I don’t know if I’d call it a travesty of the Sacrament, but definitely unneeded. Confirmation is obviously the acceptance and understanding of the doctrine as an adult.

There is a movement in some RCC dioceses in the US to restore the order of the rites of initiation to Baptism, then Confirmation, then Communion, so Confirmation would be ~ age 7 before Communion.

> **[NH Diocese Latest to Restore Order of Sacraments](https://www.ncregister.com/features/nh-diocese-latest-to-restore-order-of-sacraments)**
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> The Manchester move to bring confirmation back to its place before first Eucharist is rooted in a program of lifelong formation, advocates say.

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