If it is Congregational, shouldn't it be Evangelical? This comes across as inconsistent (read "sloppy") which is not good for first impressions.
Hm, I'm not so sure. Obviously there are denominations, and then there are other groups within and accross denominations. Evangelicals are hard to pin down, since there are Lutheran, Refomed, Baptist, Methodist… evangelicals - which usually share more common traits among each other than with the non-evangelical wing of their respective denomination. Hans Bruns was a Lutheran pastor (I inherited my copy of his bible - which seemingly was the first "communicative" translation in the German language - from my Grandfather, a pietist-leaning protestant). Congregationalism is as far as I know only a specific form of church government that gives authority only to the local congregation instead of a larger denominational structure, in my head this is associated mainly with Baptism (and thus such congregations could be evangelical or liberal), but I think this was different when it was invented in the UK by some Puritans which may theologically still have been Anglicans or switched over to broadly Reformed. Not sure that all congregationalists could be called evangelical - surely not the other way round.
But I think all Dispensationalists can be considered Evangelicals. But not the other way round.
@NB.Mick
Not sure that all congregationalists could be called evangelical - surely not the other way round.
My maternal grandmother was Congregational/Presbyterian depending upon the church her father was currently pastoring … but my comment was intended to be on the form of the term not the theological relationship. They generally use the normal nominal form Catholic, Presbyterian, Adventist … using -ism only for subdivisions such as dispensationalism. Evangelicalism sticks out like a sore thumb . . .
