A Form of Godliness But Denying its Power

How many people go to church, sit in the pews, sing some songs, hear some nice words then go home and live their lives however they choose? How many folks believe the Christian faith is all about “being a pretty good person”?  How many believe there are many ways to God instead of just one?  How amazing that this great falling away seems to have exploded in just the last few years...about the same time as Covid locked us all up and the transgenders, gender-fluids and Youth Attracted Persons were hatched in their closets and emerged with many demands on all society. The term “woke” was born and we already know that folks who reject the Bible and have no fear of the Lord are 100 times more likely to be fully woke.  Pray for this nation.  We are on the edge of the abyss and I’m convinced that very few understand.

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In a recent survey of born-again Christians, less than half claimed to believe that Jesus lived a sinless life while on Earth, or that human life is sacred.

The American Worldview Inventory (AWVI) 2023— a national representative survey of 2,000 adults, including 650 born-again Christians, was conducted in January by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.

The AWVI 2023 found that church attendance has declined by about 6% since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Now, just one out of three adults (33%) currently attend a church service, either in person or online during a typical week—a decline representing the loss of about 15 million churchgoing adults each week, according to researcher George Barna, who directed the study.

 Other declines among born-again Christians in 2023 compared to 2020 are:

• Those who believe that they have a unique, God-given calling or purpose for their life was sliced nearly in half, from 88% to 46%.
• Those claiming that they are deeply committed to practicing their religious faith dropped from a very robust 85% in 2020 to 50%.
• Adults attending an evangelical church is down from 28% pre-pandemic to 21% post-pandemic.
• Those who believe that God is the basis of all truth declined from 69% in 2020 to 63% this year.

Barna said the significant changes found in the study are highly unusual.

“Most religious beliefs change over the course of generations, not a few years,” he said in a press release “However, we know that major life crises have the capacity to introduce substantial change quickly in the foundations of people’s faith.

“The pandemic was certainly a life crisis for our nation, so even though this magnitude of spiritual shift was not expected, it is feasible given the physical and psychological effects of COVID along with the economic, relational and lifestyle effects of the government’s drastic policies.” 

https://harbingersdaily.com/survey-finds-less-than-half-of-born-again-christians-believe-jesus-was-sinless/