Jesus asked if he would find any real faith on earth when He returned. He also warned that the path to eternal life would be very narrow but the road to destruction would be very wide. And finally He said that the Last Days would be filled with teachers and preachers telling people what they wanted to hear and not the truth of the Word of God.
Clearly, it appears that this day has arrived. Even in America, which is arguably the world's last-best-hope for Biblical worldviews, there are now few folks who see the world through a biblical lens.
This Easter weekend, sanctuaries across America will be packed.
Parking lots will overflow. Extra chairs will be unfolded. Families dressed in spring colors will fill pews, sing "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today," and hear once again the greatest announcement in human history: Jesus Christ is alive.
And in one sense, that is deeply encouraging.
Pastors are expecting one of their biggest crowds of the year, just as they have for years. More than half of U.S. Protestant pastors say Easter is their church's highest-attendance Sunday, and for many others it ranks second or third--alongside Christmas and Mother's Day. In other words, if there is one Sunday Americans still instinctively know matters, it is Easter.
Even better, the doctrine at the center of Easter is still surprisingly strong in the public imagination. Recent State of Theology findings show that roughly two-thirds of U.S. adults agree that the biblical accounts of Jesus' bodily resurrection are accurate, and among those who attend church at least once or twice a month, belief rises to around 90%.
That is the good news.
Now for the bad news.
A new 2026 worldview study from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found that only 4% of American adults possess a biblical worldview--a number unchanged from 2023 and lower than 2020. Even more sobering, overwhelming majorities of Americans lack biblical alignment in core areas such as truth, morality, salvation, relationships, and faith practices.
That means millions of Americans may sincerely say, "Yes, I believe Jesus rose from the dead," while living Monday through Saturday as though His resurrection has little authority over their money, sexuality, relationships, priorities, convictions, entertainment, or identity.
That is the contradiction.
And it may be one of the defining spiritual crises of our age.
Here; Easter Crowds Are Coming - But America's Christian Worldview Is Collapsing
Yes, this is bad news for all of us. The cares of this world and the desire for riches has made the vast majority of Americans biblically illiterate. We are suffering a famine...not of food or water, but of the hearing and knowing of the Word of God.
We might be willing to applaud that the churches of America have overflow crowds over the past weekend but if those folks aren't hearing that JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY and that they need to REPENT and SURRENDER THEIR LIVES to Jesus and to SPEND TIME reading and studying the Word of God and to apply it to their lives...then it's just a group of people checking off a to-do list and they leave church unchanged and unmoved.
Keep praying for America. Keep praying for the peace of Jerusalem. Keep praying for Jesus to come quickly. That is our blessed hope.
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