It's Happening all over the US. Why?
A recent Time Magazine article " A Case for Teaching the Bible", states"According to Religious Literacy, polls show that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the Bible holds the answers to "all or most of life's basic questions," but pollster George Gallup has dubbed us "a nation of biblical illiterates." Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel. Most can't name the Bible's first book. The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only 44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount."
Could our Biblical illeteracy be one of the reasons that so much of the church is lead away from time tested Biblical doctrine to "Me" centered messages which do not even reference scripture or are so out of context a toddler with his Bible open could figure it out?
Messages and doctrines which turn Easter on it's head being so focused on man and make God into our "homeboy" our cosmic cash machine who we go to for cash, but not really to bow and worship unless we get a payout.
One might think it would be a quite possible reason, though I'm not sure the public schools will pose a great lasting remedy to this problem, but I guess it's better than nothing.
It would be great it the church did what the church is meant to do... equip the saints for the ministry... and got back to the texts and it would be swell if the the listeners tested the messages like the Bereans the Apostle Paul commends for testing his sermons.
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