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Ken Ham (founder of the Creation Museum) commissioned a study to find out why 2/3 of kids leave Evangelical churches when they reach their mid-20s. He’s also co-written a book to explain just what we can do about it. The study results will astound you!Ham commissioned Britt Beemer, founder of the American Research Group and a former researcher for the Heritage Foundation, to find out why 2/3rds of Evangelical kids turn their backs on Christ when they reach their mid 20s. The number who leave has been well established; the reason was always thought to be exposure to the secularist agenda when in college. Not so!
Beemer contacted 1,000 20-29 year old young adults who used to attend Evangelical churches regularly, but no longer did so. He found, shockingly, that those who most regularly attended Sunday School were the most likely to question the truthfulness of Scripture, to defend same-sex marriage and abortion, and to flat-out leave the church than those who didn’t.
“But . . . I thought sending my kids to Sunday School helped them learn all about Jesus, and what the Bible really says! Why would they question Scripture if they know what it says?”
Ham has proposed a reason why kids aren’t buying Christianity, and it has to do with the church bending to secularism’s will.
Many churches today, even some Evangelical churches, teach that the age of the Earth is not an issue as long as you trust in Jesus and believe in the resurrection and the Gospel accounts. Free to consider that certain parts of the Bible — the Creation story in particular — are not true, these youths then start to question the entire Good Book’s veracity and accuracy.
As Ham says,
[Teens believe that] what they are taught in school is reality, but the church teaches stories and morality and relationship. Bible teaching is not real in the sense of real history.
Many churches say that belief in 6-Day Creationism is not a Salvation issue. However, faith in the Scriptures is. The Bible is the entire foundation of Christianity; it is the only objective way we can know God and His Will while in this life. Our “feelings”, and our “conscience”, are human and subject to human confusion and demonic manipulation. We cannot rely upon “believing it’s right” if it disagrees with Scripture!What we are doing when we assert our own beliefs over God’s Word is, in effect, prophesying. What does the Bible say about prophets?
Isaiah 8:20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
If a prophet speaks contrary to God’s Word, the Scripture, it is false prophecy; the prophet is imagining, or making up, or being manipulated to believe false things and mislead the faithful.
Yet many churches, including Evangelical churches, say that parts of God’s Word might not be correct, and can be ignored. Then they wonder why followers question the rest of it?
Ham suggests instead that Christians should not reject 6-Day Creationism. Instead, they should arm themselves and their children with Creationist Facts, by visiting Ham’s website and coming to the Creation Museum.
Certain atheists are cackling about this, claiming Ham only did the study to drive visitors to his website and museum. They just can’t grasp that the whole point of Ham’s museum and website are to protect Christianity from secularism!
Certain Catholics — who, as we know, cast aside Scripture for the traditions of men — are also offended, saying,
This is not good theology or Biblical study. The initial study is probably fine (although I am not a stat guy, so I wouldn’t know any way), but the conclusions are off-the-wall bad. The problem is not in evolution vs. the Bible. The problem is in how we parent our kids and don’t give them a solid basis in truly understanding who they are, who God is, what their purpose is, and the freedom to ask questions and then help them seek the answers.
Should it come as a surprise that Catholics, who worship Mary and believe that their priests have the magical power to command Jesus to enter crackers and turn them into flesh (what is that supposed to be, anyway? Jesus Jerky?), are offended at the idea of adhering to what God wants us to read in His Word?Ken Ham has shown us the way. In order to keep children from turning from God as some sort of fairy tale like Santa Claus when they reach adulthood, we cannot allow question any part of the Bible. We must — must – follow it to the letter.
Won’t you join me today in committing to reading the Bible daily, without trying to interpret it or put it in “historical context”, but rather accepting that our all-knowing and all-powerful God gave us this book to read so we could understand who He is and what He wants from us?
Will you join me in recognizing that the Creation story is completely true? That God’s nature is not the “hippie love god” who hates wars, but rather is the vengeful father who commanded Moses to commit genocide against the Midianites, a tribe of Jews who left Judaism to follow another religion (Numbers 31)? Will you accept that God made Balaam’s ass to speak to him (Numbers 22:21-30)?
Will you commit to making sure your children know that they must believe ALL of the Bible, because it ALL must be true or there is no way to tell what is or what isn’t? Or will you turn your back on God and spend eternity burning in Hell because you wanted to listen to the “scienticians” instead of Scripture?
Are you willing to help children stick with Jesus through their entire lives?
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