The following applies to professing Christians in The West<\/p>\n
The Bible<\/p>\n
63% – God is not the provider of truth and the Bible cannot be trusted to fully<\/p>\n
represent God-given principles<\/p>\n
13% – Read their Bible regularly [which means 87% are open to man\u2019s interptation]<\/p>\n
41-43% – consider scripture to be \u201caccurate in its teaching\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Regarding Jesus<\/p>\n
45% – admit that certainty about Christ is impossible<\/p>\n
46% – believe that Jesus sinned while He was on earth<\/p>\n
65% – deny the Incarnation Of Christ, believing that Jesus is a just being whom<\/p>\n
God created<\/p>\n
30% – Outright deny Christ\u2019s divinity, saying that \u201cJesus was a great teacher, but<\/p>\n
[He] was\/is not God\u201d<\/p>\n
Great Commission<\/p>\n
64% – Believe witnessing to the lost is a Christian Duty<\/p>\n
47% – Believe that evangelism is morally wrong, as it may pressure someone<\/p>\n
to change faiths<\/p>\n
25% – Could not even remember what the term \u201cGreat Commission\u201d is<\/p>\n
51% – Have never heard the term \u201cGreat Comission\u201d in Their lives<\/p>\n
Holy Spirit<\/p>\n
58% – The Holy Spirit is a Symbol, not a member of the trinity<\/p>\n
20% – The Holy Spirit can and will tell a Christian to do something the the<\/p>\n
Bible \u201cexpressly\u201d forbids<\/p>\n
34% – Believe God is \u201cinvolved in their life\u201d In any way<\/p>\n
Core doctrines of the Christian Faith<\/p>\n
40% – A lie is no longer a sin, so long as it advances personal interests<\/p>\n
50% – Believe that premarital sex is fine<\/p>\n
34% – Say Abortion is morally acceptable<\/p>\n
44% – do not think the Bible\u2019s teaching on abortion is clear<\/p>\n
40% – Do not believe human life is sacred<\/p>\n
81% – people can be their own moral compass because humans are essentially<\/p>\n
good<\/p>\n
48% – Salvation can be earned just by doing good and being a good personal<\/p>\n
42% – believe God accepts the worship of all religions<\/p>\n
26% – Church ministries cannot be effective to the world unless their worship<\/p>\n
services are \u201centertaining\u201d<\/p>\n
39% – That \u201cmaterial blessings\u201d are a guaranteed reward of faith<\/p>\n
Regarding Christian practices<\/p>\n
33% – Confess sins and seek forginess<\/p>\n
2% – Pray in front of others<\/p>\n
39% – Do not respect people from other faiths<\/p>\n
This is why\u2026<\/p>\n
33% – of young adults reject Christianity because of the hypocrisy<\/p>\n
they see in the church<\/p>\n
50% – of young adults \u201cstill feel the church cannot amswer their questions\u2026<\/p>\n
[because of] flaws our gaps in our teachings<\/p>\n
32% – of American Christians did not return to their church when the national<\/p>\n
Quarantine lifeted<\/p>\n
The most basic of all biblical world views (Per Barna Group)<\/p>\n
The Bible is wholly reliable and accurate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Satan is a real being, not a symbol of sin<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Simply being a good person does not send one to heaven<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Jeus came to earth and was sinless<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
God is the all-powerful creator of the world whole rules today<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Barna Groups Survey Says?<\/p>\n
Only 17% of professing Christians in the West Agree<\/p>\n
In 1984, in his book The Great Evangelical Disaster, Dr. Francis Schaeffer wrote, “Holding to a strong view of Scripture or not holding to it is the watershed of the evangelical world. The first direction in which we must face is to say most lovingly but clearly: evangelicalism is not consistently evangelical unless there is a line drawn between those who take a full view of Scripture and those who do not.” 1 If Scripture cannot be trusted in some areas, it cannot be trusted in any area. Once full inspiration is denied, it leaves the mind of man to determine what is inspired and what is not. Once there is a “crack in the dam” in our belief in full inspiration, the flood is imminent. Dr. Schaeffer understood that once the flood begins “there is no end … The Bible is made to say only that which echoes the surrounding culture at our moment of history. The Bible is bent to the culture illStead of the Bible judging our society and culture.” 2 Our belief in inspiration and inerrancy has a very practical effect on our daily life. As Dr. Schaeffer states, ….. compromising the full authority of Scripture eventually affects what it means \/0 be a Christian theologically and how we live in the jIIll spectrum of In\/man life.” 3 With so much at stake, we need to be very clear on what the Scriptures themselves teach about inspiration and inerrancy.<\/p>\n
Francis A. Schaeffer. The Great Evangelical Disaster (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1984) p. 51.<\/p>\n
2 Ibid., p. 60.<\/p>\n
3 Ibid., pp. 44-45.<\/p>\n
The following is excerpted from \u201cTop 10 Most Seductive Unbiblical Ideas Embraced by Americans,\u201d Cultural Research Center, June 22, 2021: \u201cThe American public flaunts its free will in many ways, not the least of which is by embracing a number of seductive–but decidedly unbiblical beliefs–as part of their worldview. According to new analysis of data from the American Worldview Inventory 2021 from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, the \u2018Top 10\u2019 most prevalent \u2018seductive unbiblical ideas\u2019 embraced by American adults include: the spiritually inclusive idea that \u2018having faith matters more than what faith you have\u2019 (62%); all faiths are of equal value (62%); belief in \u2018karma\u2019 (57%); the dismissal of absolute truth (67%); the idea that people are \u2018basically good\u2019 (69%); sexual relations apart from marriage are morally acceptable (68%). … The AWVI 2021 shows that even the 6% of adults who have a biblical worldview harbor many of these counter-biblical ideas as part of their personal philosophy of life. … [M]illions of Americans have moved away from believing that the Bible contains relevant and reliable moral absolutes for their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
If we are a bible-believing Christians we need to be studying the bible for ourselves and not following man. We need to be praying for a revival to sweep across the western world and put us back on course before it too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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