In light of our current discipleship study, “The Truth Project”, it was interesting to come across a study on biblical worldviews conducted by the Barna Research Group recently. Among the findings reported from adults who consider themselves to be born again were these:
- Slightly less than half (46%) believe in absolute moral truth.
- 40% are convinced that Satan is a real force.
- 79% firmly believe that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it teaches.
- Slightly less than two-thirds of the born again segment (62%) strongly believes that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life while He was on earth.
Those are some revealing, if not startling, statistics, especially given that those numbers represent the attitudes of professed born again Christians. It seems, then, that teaching such as is happening within the Truth Project, Sunday School, and other discipleship opportunities are essential to instructing believers in the theology and doctrine that presumably shapes and guides their life. George Barna had this to say in response to the results of the study: “Although most Americans consider themselves to be Christian and say they know the content of the Bible, less than one out of ten Americans demonstrate such knowledge through their actions.”