I hear, I read so many words wondering, asking, how is it we have arrived where we are? How can this be happening in America, and in Western nations? What is going on!?

Yet in all the pondering, wondering, asking, seeking, and consternation about the rotted, decayed state of things as everything is breaking down and being turned inside out and upside down few are going to the root cause.

As they proclaim or lay claim to everything under the sun being the reasons except what the actual cause is!

People en masse turning from God, turning from the Lord Jesus Christ, turning from the Holy Spirit, and turning from the Holy Bible. This has taken place quickly and overwhelmingly in America, and in every Western nation once otherwise disposed and having at least a good percentage of true believers, and if not true believers at least parents who parented, people who possessed a portion of morals and values and understood what was evil and worked to keep it from overtaking society.

No more.

Many who attend a church service these days do so to get their gold attendance star, to make a show of it, the make-believers, and then embark the remainder of the week appearing no different than any pagan. Most hurry home once Autumn arrives in America to make sure they don’t miss an NFL football game! Or can’t wait to get lunch and ingest more than they ought to as they failed to ingest what they heard while in church, providing it was a rare Bible-believing, Bible-preaching, Bible-centered sound doctrine church to begin with, as the overwhelming majority now are nothing more than entertainment venues, rock music, light shows, and a person standing in front of the gathered folks telling them things to make them feel good rather than preaching the Word of God adding nothing, omitting nothing, relying on the Holy Spirit for help in what to tell the people seated before them.

And then there is what passes for parenting today. And for the past 50-plus years. A timeframe wherein children became the rulers in most homes. Were never told “no,” never disciplined — and giving a timeout is not disciple — and in which the parents were convinced they needed to be their offspring’s friend and have their children like them rather than parenting them, guiding them, instructing them, reproving them, equipping them, teaching them well in the ways of the Lord, the Bible, discipline, accountability, and responsibility.

Don’t believe this?

Just look around. Listen. Watch the news. Watch more than the news.

Why do you imagine we are in the state of decay that we are? Due to what the so-called experts and psychologists say, the politicians claim, due to what educators say? Due to what the talking heads on TV or in self-help books claim?

No. The decline, the decay, and the destruction have paralleled the turning from God, turning from the Lord Jesus Christ, turning from the Holy Spirit, and turning from the Bible.

In conjunction with this, once aligned Jews, albeit refusing to acknowledge and believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the true and only Messiah, have become more secular, less believing, and even more liberal than previously.

The Enemy, Satan, sees, hears, and knows every weakness, every falling away, and do you imagine he and his minions, his ministers remain idle and at ease with such weaknesses, turning from God, turning from the Bible, turning from a faith once held, polluting that faith with false teachings and every abomination under the sun? Or do you think Satan and his legions might take advantage of such a situation and make sure to make matters worse?

Where are the parents? Not the pretenders!

Where are the true believers!? Not the make-believers!

Where are the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, the children of God, God’s people? And not the children of disobedience, the disciples of the Evil One!?

Is it any wonder that only 3% of children possess a Biblical worldview?

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, November 15th, 2023

Eternal Consequences: Only 3% Of Children Have A Biblical Worldview

November 11, 2023

By Ken Ham

Reprinted from Harbinger’s Daily & Prophecy News Watch

It’s been said that children have more or less developed their worldview by the time they are 13 years old. That’s why it’s utterly vital that parents and churches tirelessly obey God’s command to be always speaking of the things of the Lord with their children, discipling them in the truth. But sadly, the vast majority of parents do not do this—and it shows in survey results.

The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University recently released data from a survey of 400 children. This survey sought to examine “the prominence of belief in the ‘Seven Cornerstones of a Biblical Worldview’ among adolescents” (children ages 8–12). The seven cornerstones are the following:

• God exists and is the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfect Creator and ruler of the universe.
• As a sinner, the only solution to the consequences of sin is to acknowledge your sins, ask God to forgive you through Jesus Christ, and rely on Him to save you from those consequences.
• Sin is real, and significant; we are all sinners, by choice.
• Your most important reason for living is to do what God wants.
• You trust the Bible because it is completely true and personally relevant to your life.
• The Bible provides a complete and reliable understanding of right and wrong.
• Success is consistently doing what the Bible teaches.

The survey found that just 3% of children embraced all seven of these cornerstones. The majority only agreed with one or two, rejecting or stating they were unsure about the others. As the survey report states, “That does not bode well for adolescents building a stable foundation that will lead to a robust and biblical worldview.”

So what worldview are these children forming? Researcher George Barna says it’s a worldview of syncretism—the dominant worldview in the West today as people combine a little bit of this and a little bit of that into a religion of their own making. Barna says:

They are following in the footsteps of their parents, only 2% of whom have a biblical worldview, and 96% of whom are Syncretists. That mindset and lifestyle is modeled for their children every day and has become the comfortable default position among most adults, teens, and children who call themselves Christian.

Every person has a worldview. The question is whether it is the right worldview. And the answer to that is this: “The only correct worldview is the one grounded on God’s Word.” Every other worldview is ultimately founded in man’s opinion (man’s word) and is therefore subjective and arbitrary. The only absolute worldview is the one that comes from God’s Word.

Parents, these survey results should be sobering. They should make you stop and consider what kind of priority teaching your children the things of the Lord has in your home. And that doesn’t just mean teaching children good morals from God’s Word so they do what is right. It means teaching them the theology and doctrine of God’s Word so they can look at the world through the right lens. It means teaching them the gospel so they understand what Jesus did for them and how they can be saved. It means always taking everything back to Scripture as the ultimate authority.

Yes, this is hard work, but it’s the task the Lord has called parents (and especially fathers!) to, and it has eternal consequences. Don’t delegate your children’s worldview training to the church, a Christian school, or the world. Open the Word of God with your children and teach them diligently.