Recently as I was doing research for an upcoming sermon series I ran across a statistic that would shock many Christians. A survey was conducted in Lawrence County of the percentage of people in church on Sunday mornings. Actually, it was an average of four consecutive Sunday mornings. Any guess on how many people in Lawrence County attend church in this great Christian nation we live in? Actually, that is one of my pet peeves, stating we live in a Christian nation. At best we are living in a post-Christian era, but most believers seem to be in denial. To say that 60% of the people in the United States are Christians is a gross error…at least in the way I think being Christian should be defined. For one to claim to be a Christian does not make it so…neither does attending a church service on special occasions or even weekly. Being Christian is being in a relationship with Jesus Christ…to surrender your life to Him…not being involved in religion or the member of a church. Today, at least in the US, many more people seek to worship at the altar of the almighty dollar than at the feet of Jesus Christ. Want proof? The survey I spoke of earlier reported that only 18% of the population of Lawrence County was in a church worshipping God on any given Sunday. Preposterous…sounds painfully accurate to me…and reveals the tremendous work we have before us.
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What's even scarier is that non-christian christians can be in the pulpit!! Our speaker at BYI pointed this out to us when he was telling us we need to check out things we are told....don't just take them as fact.
AMEN!
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