Fresh Mannaby Pastor Tim BurtAmerica is in crisis over many things at this moment, but I want to focus on one that is critical to every Christian.Before I share it with you, let me lead you with a ridiculous thought. Can you imagine taking a cross country trip in your car (not electric) without some kind of navigational plan such as a map or google maps, and without gasoline? I can't. Those would be two critical things that would help your adventure be more successful!Today, Bible illiteracy—not understanding scripture and not knowing scripture by heart, is a crisis for Christians. Christians are suffering from Bible illiteracy and intimacy with God more than anytime I've ever seen. Because of technology, most Bible believing churches flash the scriptures preached on a screen. This has resulted in many Christians not bringing their Bible to church because they don't feel the need to bring them. They hear scriptures but don't remember them and don't study them out later on. Christians today are often walking around thinking they know their Bible, but when challenged or needing to talk about scripture with Bible opposers or in sharing their faith, they find themselves inept in doing so. When Christians become incapable of having an intelligent discussion with others that oppose their faith, they feel persecuted and often begin to doubt themselves and what they believe! This happens more at the college level than any other age group, and at a time when young Christians need to develop strong core values and character!
Not learning, understanding, and memorizing scripture poses another problem! When God speaks to you, He speaks through the scriptures. He brings scriptures to your heart and then speaks to you through them. When you don't know scripture and haven't hidden it in your heart, you've lost a great deal of the power of God's restraining force against the many temptations that face you daily! Pastors better figure this out soon and create some solutions because, although they preach to their congregation to read their Bible daily, data shows that most don't. When Christians don't know their Bible, they don't reverence God's word and live by it and too often backslide. This has resulted in many Christians living as worldly as non-believers. It is a crisis!So today, let me encourage you to do three things!
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