People who have a biblical worldview are rare in America.  I firmly believe that to be the case.  I’ve been in youth ministry for over twenty years, and I’ve watched our society spiral downward in that very short time.

I believe that this is due, in part, to our humanistic educational system.  I’m not necessarily talking about the local school systems, although they could take a stronger stance on what they do and don’t teach. No, the problem reaches much higher than that, into the higher educational systems, and even the government board of education.

It’s been like this for decades.  And it shows very little indication that it will get better soon.

Our culture has thrown away the Bible.  It no longer has any authority in our lives.

Listen to what Josh McDowell says in The Last Christian Generation:

Barna’s research of “born again Christians” showed that ninety-eight percent of professed born-again young people do ‘believe in Christ,’ but they do not reflect Christlike attitudes or actions!

Or again:

It is apparent that here at the beginning of the twenty-first century we face a generation of young people who no longer hold to what most evangelicals consider to be the true foundations of the Christian faith:  belief in the deity of Christ, the reliability of Scripture, and the bodily resurrection of Jesus.

And I would add to this list the reality of Creation, Noah’s flood and the Tower of Babel!

Or consider what Woodrow Kroll has to say, in Taking Back The Good Book:

21^st century Christians have become so biblically ignorant that they have forfeited any chance of thinking Christianly.  Christians accept the idea of living a moral life and worshipping God in church, but nothing in their lives is so transformed that the neighbors notice the difference or the boss wonders what’s happened to them.  They don’t view the world any different than non-believers.

The proportion of Americans who believe the Bible is literally true fell by half in a quarter of a century.  In 1963, 65 percent of Americans believed the Bible was literally true.  This figure fell to 38 percent by 1978.

“Science” has convinced us that Genesis simply can’t be true.  “Science” has stated firmly that it has replaced God.  There is no need to believe the Creation story, because we “know” that life evolved from non-life 4.5 billion years ago.

So which is true?  If evolution is true, than the Bible cannot be.  But as Christians, we say that we accept God’s Word as infallible.  The two are mutually exclusive!  And we have accepted the word of men over the Word of God.  We have thrown away the Bible!  We no longer see it as a valid authority in our lives.  We’ve stopped reading it.  We’ve stopped basing our laws on it.  We’ve taken it out of schools, out of the courts, out of the public places.  We don’t even know what it says anymore.

According to Barna Research Group, just 9 percent of all adults in America who claim to be “born again” have a biblical worldview.  Nine percent.

And less than 50 percent of ministers claim to have a biblical wordview.  Stop and read that sentence again.  Men in the pulpit, preaching the Word of God…  Less than 50 percent have a biblical worldview.  Can you see the problem here?

Christians who lack biblical knowledge are the products of churches that marginalize biblical knowledge.  And their worldview is distinctly non-Christian.

If we are going to reset our lives, and our nation, on the foundation of the Bible, then we need to regain a biblical worldview.  And that starts with accepting God’s Word at face value:  reading it and believing it.   And God’s Word starts with our origins, our beginnings.

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