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American Christian's Role
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| Why aren't we fighting for this in the church? | |
| Why aren't we standing for the principles anymore? | |
| I can tell you a lot about the American church because we do tons of national polling on it. | |
| Work closely with George Barn and others. | |
| The American church is a very sick condition. | |
| However, I don't really care about the American church. | |
| I care about the American Christian. | |
| And the American Christian can solve the American church problem. | |
| But right now, only 14% of Christians read the Bible on a daily basis. | |
| Right now, you have only 10% of American Christians that have a biblical worldview. | |
| Only 4% of millennials that have a biblical worldview. | |
| So we don't even know enough about the Bible to know what it teaches to think biblically, to be able to behave biblically. | |
| And if the church doesn't, the pastors sure aren't going to. | |
| And so at this point, the church itself is not doing a good job in any cultural perspective. | |
| We have good pastors out there, no question about it. | |
| But the institution of the church nationally is the weakest it has been in polling history. | |
| In 2006, 47% of Americans were born-again Christians. | |
| Last year, it was down to 31%. | |
| So we have dropped 16% born-again Christians in a little over a decade, and there's nothing happening. | |
| There's nothing that people want from the church right now. | |
| Church attendance is dropping. | |
| Two out of three people who leave church say they leave church because they get nothing relevant there. | |
| There's nothing that they can apply to their lives. | |
| And so instead of the church offering solutions, they're offering platitudes. | |
| And, you know, here's why I really don't care where the church is, because let me take just global evangelism. | |
| We have put 2,000 years into evangelizing the world as Christians, and we are the largest religion in the world. | |
| 32% of the world is Christian today, which is terrific. | |
| And we have pastors, and we have missionaries, and we have evangelists. | |
| We've got all these professionals doing it. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| We've got professionals doing it. | |
| If every Christian person, every person that professed Christ, if they were to say, you know, over the next year, I'm going to win one other person to Christ. | |
| 31. | |
| Just one. | |
| My only objective this year is to win one person to Christ. | |
| At the end of one year, we would have gone from 32% to 64%. | |
| At the end of two years, the entire world is Christian because Christian people did something for two years. | |
| See, we keep looking to the church to do it. | |
| We keep looking to professionals to do it. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| We've got a Bible. | |
| We can read that Bible. | |
| God's going to hold us accountable for what we know out of that Bible. | |
| So the church is in bad condition. | |
| There is no question. | |
| But that doesn't matter to me because Christians need to be strong. | |
| And right now, Christians aren't being strong. | |
| And they need to know their own faith and know what they believe. | |
| Yes. | |
| Amen. | |