Food for Thought – November/December 2010

By October 25, 2010 Newsletter

     How can it be that so many people in American society today are well educated in the eyes of the world, but we continue to fall behind because of our continuing decline in academic ability?  To make matters worse, America is not only becoming educationally deficient, she has become spiritually ignorant.  Both of these conditions are more a function of choice rather than of chance. 

     In a recent survey,  professing Christians were polled while leaving church on a Sunday morning and most could not even name the four Gospels, much less answer any number of simple questions on the basic tenets of the Christian faith.  Among the other groups who were polled, those of other faiths including Muslims and  atheists fared much better, including their knowledge of Christian doctrine.  Why is this happening all around us, and what can we do to resolve this situation?  The answer is simple. We must return to God and look to His Word for direction.

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     Christ sums up His message by telling His listeners that they must choose one of two worldviews: humanistic or Theo centric.  In summary, verses 28-29 of Matthew 7 says they were astonished by the authority of His teaching.  The only way our society can be corrected is by re-instating the principles, methods, and doctrines of the Greatest Teacher who ever taught, Jesus Christ the Master Teacher.

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