Bible study author, speaker and blogger Michelle Lesley examines women’s ministries. According to Lesley, women’s groups aren’t nearly as effective as they could be for a umber of reasons. For example, because many women hardly ever read and study their bibles they’re biblically illiterate. In other words, they know not what they believe and why they […]
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The National (Take A Verse Out Of Context) Day of Prayer
Bud Ahlheim of Pulpit & Pen tackles the 2 Chronicles 7:14 controversy. According to Ahlheim, this verse is ripped out of context and applied to Christians living in America because God refers to “my people.” “We wield it as a promise,” says Ahlheim, “imbue with perceived power, and expect from it a divinely-induced revival.” Exactly. […]
Replacing Christianity
Lee Duigon, a contributing editor with the Chalcedon Foundation, calls to our attention that because of “biblical illiteracy—or, in many cases, willful blindness and rebellion—people can call themselves “Christians” while rejecting Christian teachings.” I actually coined a term for these so-called Christians: low-information evangelicals. I penned a piece about them entitled “The low-information evangelical“(LIE) and made […]
Surprised, Shocked, and Saddened over Statistics on Twenty-Somethings
Ken Ham of Answers In Genesis lays out the cold hard truth that a large number of the younger generation of Christians–millennials–who attend church regularly are biblically illiterate. What happened in our churches that brought this sad state of affairs about? By Ken Ham If I told you the following statistics about a certain group […]