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?