George Barna: we should listen to him.
We haven’t heard from George Barna in a while: the nooze has distracted us. But he’s still out there, researching Christian worldview issues and warning us all not to allow our churches to slide into irrelevance (https://www.christianpost.com/news/george-barna-identifies-biggest-threats-facing-the-church.html).
“People have become more selfish, churches have become less influential, pastors have become less Bible-centric,” Barna writes. He points to “a steady decrease in a biblical worldview” and “a dwindling concern for spiritual formation.” Seminaries, he says, should stop “focusing on programs and buildings.”
Much more attention needs to be paid, he writes, to the spiritual education of Christians’ children–which they will certainly not get, I say, in today’s public schools.
Barna sees it as an urgent message to be vigorously delivered. Who can disagree? Failure to do this, failure to train up children in the way that they should go, will have culturally disastrous results.
Who says he’s wrong?
He certainly is not wrong. I have seen it coming for some time, and have read about churches that I have never attended. They have become mere social clubs instead of
worship and Scripture learning centers, strictly taught by dedicated pastors and teachers.
An Gott zu glauben ist nicht vernünftig….
Karl, I’m the only one in my family who doesn’t know German; but you are welcome here.
I am not great in German, but know a little
So tell me what he’s saying?
I’m afraid I would mess it up. I haven’t practiced it in a long time. I do have a hymn suggestion for tomorrow, though: Nothing But the Blood of Jesus.
First thing tomorrow.
Karl’s comment seems to translate to: “To believe in God is not reasonable.” Well, I see it just the opposite. I can see no reason to believe that we are hear because of an endless series of fortunate accidents, none of which can explain the actual origin of biological life.
I can’t think of many things less profitable than to rag a Christian blogger, in a language that he doesn’t speak, about there being no God.