Your Bible is Worthless . . . If You Do Not Read It!
Here are some of the scandalous facts about America Christians.
I am going to quote some statistics that are 14 years old. Normally, that would be unreliable data. But in this case I don’t know of a researcher alive who would say that any of these numbers have gotten better. Every one of these measurements I can all but guarantee has gotten worse. 2023 is much worse than 2009.
In a survey of Christians, not non-Christians—CHRISTIANS—people who say they know and love Jesus, here’s what one Christian researcher found:
- 48% could not name the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’s life
- 52% cannot identify more than 2 or 3 of Jesus’ disciples
- 60% of American Christians can’t name even five of the 10 commandments
- 61% of American Christians think the Sermon on the Mount was preached by Billy Graham!
- 71% of American Christians think “God helps those who help themselves” is a Bible verse
Men and Women, that is an Embarrassment!
It is scandalous and it is at the heart of the powerlessness of the body of Christ in America. A starvation diet that Christians have themselves on related to the word of God is not conducive to “growth in the grace and knowledge of Christ” (2 Pet. 3:18) or any power in our exercise of “the ministry of reconciliation.” (2 Cor. 5:18)
Get your Bible out and begin to develop the discipline of reading it every day. The discipline of reading it every day. Every word in that phrase is important.
- The discipline — that’s what it takes, you have to work at it.
- of reading — staring at the word—-holding the word, admiring the word, owning a Bible means nothing. You have to actually read it.
- every day — here’s a thought, what would your physical strength be like if you had to skip a meal for every missed day in the word of God?
Be a student of the word of God. You need it. The world needs it from you. And the Lord who lived and died and rose for you deserves it.
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