Jim Bakker Show - What Happened To Our Christian Principles - Dr David Barton on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-07-12
Duration: 02:44


=== American Christian's Role (02:44) ===

[00:00:00]  Why aren't we fighting for this in the church?
[00:00:03]  Why aren't we standing for the principles anymore?
[00:00:06]  I can tell you a lot about the American church because we do tons of national polling on it.
[00:00:09]  Work closely with George Barn and others.
[00:00:12]  The American church is a very sick condition.
[00:00:14]  However, I don't really care about the American church.
[00:00:17]  I care about the American Christian.
[00:00:19]  And the American Christian can solve the American church problem.
[00:00:23]  But right now, only 14% of Christians read the Bible on a daily basis.
[00:00:28]  Right now, you have only 10% of American Christians that have a biblical worldview.
[00:00:34]  Only 4% of millennials that have a biblical worldview.
[00:00:37]  So we don't even know enough about the Bible to know what it teaches to think biblically, to be able to behave biblically.
[00:00:44]  And if the church doesn't, the pastors sure aren't going to.
[00:00:47]  And so at this point, the church itself is not doing a good job in any cultural perspective.
[00:00:54]  We have good pastors out there, no question about it.
[00:00:56]  But the institution of the church nationally is the weakest it has been in polling history.
[00:01:03]  In 2006, 47% of Americans were born-again Christians.
[00:01:08]  Last year, it was down to 31%.
[00:01:11]  So we have dropped 16% born-again Christians in a little over a decade, and there's nothing happening.
[00:01:18]  There's nothing that people want from the church right now.
[00:01:21]  Church attendance is dropping.
[00:01:23]  Two out of three people who leave church say they leave church because they get nothing relevant there.
[00:01:28]  There's nothing that they can apply to their lives.
[00:01:30]  And so instead of the church offering solutions, they're offering platitudes.
[00:01:35]  And, you know, here's why I really don't care where the church is, because let me take just global evangelism.
[00:01:41]  We have put 2,000 years into evangelizing the world as Christians, and we are the largest religion in the world.
[00:01:47]  32% of the world is Christian today, which is terrific.
[00:01:51]  And we have pastors, and we have missionaries, and we have evangelists.
[00:01:54]  We've got all these professionals doing it.
[00:01:55]  That's the problem.
[00:01:56]  We've got professionals doing it.
[00:01:58]  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.
[00:02:06]  31.
[00:02:07]  Just one.
[00:02:08]  My only objective this year is to win one person to Christ.
[00:02:11]  At the end of one year, we would have gone from 32% to 64%.
[00:02:15]  At the end of two years, the entire world is Christian because Christian people did something for two years.
[00:02:21]  See, we keep looking to the church to do it.
[00:02:24]  We keep looking to professionals to do it.
[00:02:25]  No, no, no.
[00:02:26]  We've got a Bible.
[00:02:27]  We can read that Bible.
[00:02:28]  God's going to hold us accountable for what we know out of that Bible.
[00:02:32]  So the church is in bad condition.
[00:02:34]  There is no question.
[00:02:35]  But that doesn't matter to me because Christians need to be strong.
[00:02:39]  And right now, Christians aren't being strong.
[00:02:41]  And they need to know their own faith and know what they believe.
[00:02:43]  Yes.
[00:02:44]  Amen.