Posted on 07/14/2015 10:23:39 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
When was the last time you read a book? For almost 1 in 4 of us, it was more than a year ago, according to Pew Research. That's three times the number who didn't read a book in 1978. In America, we have a literacy problem. But more concerning to me, we have a biblical literacy problem. Americans, including churchgoers, aren't reading much of any book, including the Good Book.
Christians claim to believe the Bible is God's Word. We claim it's God's divinely inspired, inerrant message to us. Yet despite this, we aren't reading it. A recent LifeWay Research study found only 45 percent of those who regularly attend church read the Bible more than once a week. Over 40 percent of the people attending read their Bible occasionally, maybe once or twice a month. Almost 1 in 5 churchgoers say they never read the Bible—essentially the same number who read it every day.
Because we don't read God's Word, it follows that we don't know it. To understand the effects, we can look to statistics of another Western country: the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom Bible Society surveyed British children and found many could not identify common Bible stories. When given a list of stories, almost 1 in 3 didn't choose the Nativity as part of the Bible and over half (59 percent) didn't know that Jonah being swallowed by the great fish is in the Bible...
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Actually, that is only a little off. God will help those who step out of the boat and keep them from sinking into the water if they keep their eyes on Him in faith. He just wants us to take that first step. Getting out of the boat is the hardest part. I’m trying to figure out how to get out of mine.
Uh, Aesop wrote that, and the book of Jude only has one chapter.
Nice smackdown! Ouch!
The list [of evidences] is pretty long. LOST tribes, indeed.
lol
Yes, I know.
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