Rejecting a Biblical worldview isn’t ushering in a new morality. It is merely increasing the past and present immorality and godlessness present. Leading us to the present and future the Bible tells us will befall the people of the earth.

Already taking place.

Tragically. Only to get worse.

What to do? Step up, professed Christian. Put your professed faith where your mouth, your actions are. Live it, be it, do it. Openly. Unashamedly. So that no one encountered fails to recognize us as different. They may not know what it is that makes us this way, but that provides opportunity. Giving the enemy no opportunity.

Time is short. No time to waste. We must be fully equipped, trained, and active on-duty soldiers for the Lord Jesus Christ. Yeshua HaMashiach. Forget full body armour — be always dressed in the dull armour of God [see Ephesians 6].

Teach children well in the ways and words of the Lord.

Teach your children well in the ways and words of the Lord.

Teach your grandchildren well in the ways and words of the Lord.

First, each of us needs to be well taught in the ways and the words of the Lord in the Holy Bible.

Get at the Word. Get at the darkness and evil that abound and continue to grow like Ebola Bubonic and cancer organisms in a Petri dish in the right conditions.

And the world is in the right condition to lead as many people, young people, all people in the wrong ways to go.

Our job, our duty, and our commandment is to resist this and engage the culture in the spiritual war every person is a part of. Even if they deny it or attempt to hide from it. Impossible. Can’t be done. Better to come to terms with this and battle on.

On the only side that is right, the only side that wins. That would be God’s side. Jesus Christ’s side. The Holy Spirit’s side. The side in which the Holy Bible is the instructions to victory in this massive ongoing escalating war.

With, sadly, more casualties than necessary.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

Younger Generations Reject Biblical Worldview, Ushering in ‘New Morality’ 

Release #3 from the American Worldview Inventory 2024

May 28, 2024

From George Barna of the George Barna Group

Dear ________,

In my 40 years of worldview research, I’ve documented the sustained decline in biblical worldview in America—plummeting from 12% to today’s 4% level. My latest report from the American Worldview Inventory 2024 digs more deeply into the troubling worldview trajectory in our nation.

What is causing of this downward trend in biblical worldview—and what can be done to reverse it? 

Today’s research shows that the nation’s younger generations are driving this dramatic shift—and they are ushering in a new morality along the way. A majority of adults reject biblical morality, and instead accept lying, abortion, premarital sex, homosexual marriage, and the rejection of absolute moral truth as morally acceptable.

What Millennials began, Gen Z is accelerating, as our nation undergoes a generational transformation that shows no sign of stopping.

In fact, my studies of teenagers and preteens indicate that biblical worldview levels will drop another two points within the next 15 years—unless some dramatic and unusually effective spiritual renewal event occurs.

Our greatest hope for the future is to strategically disciple those around us in the biblical worldview—especially in the next generation.  

The American Worldview Inventory 2024 identifies places where we can focus those efforts, especially within Gen Z (ages 21 down to 3).

For example, there is one key worldview area in which the adults in Gen Z seem to be bucking the trends. Because of their life experiences, they are less likely than people from earlier generations to believe that people are basically good.

That offers a great opportunity to help them understand the biblical truth that people are not basically good. We’re sinners. Sin distorts our minds and hearts, producing bad choice after bad choice. Repentance and reliance upon Jesus Christ are the solutions.

While Millennials and Gen X generally dismiss reliance on Jesus as “old-fashioned” or “foolish,” we can share with Gen Z that biblical truths are the only reliable truths, and they serve us best.

Similarly, anyone who works with today’s children (the youngest members of Gen Z) can have tremendous influence in shaping their worldview by helping them develop a strong foundation rooted in biblical truth.

Committing to discipleship that develops the biblical worldview is the key to shifting our nation back to God. And my latest book, Raising Spiritual Champions: Nurturing Your Child’s Heart, Mind and Soul, is a great place to start with the youngest members of Gen Z.

You can see highlights of my latest AWVI 2024 report, “Explaining America’s 40-Year Drop in Biblical Worldview – And How to Reverse that Decline,” below.

Highlights from American Worldview Inventory 2024: Report #3:

“Explaining America’s 40-Year Drop in Biblical Worldview – And How to Reverse that Decline”

New research from AWVI 2024  and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University highlights the dramatic generational transformation occurring in our nation. Biblical worldview incidence in the United states has declined for five consecutive generations and during that time, the number of adults holding a biblical worldview has plummeted from 12% to today’s 4% level.

According to researcher Dr. George Barna, the decline can be explained by the increasing influence of the worldview championed by the younger Millennial and Gen Z generations, as the proportion of adults from the Boomer and Elders generations substantially decreases.

In exploring four dozen worldview measures, Dr. Barna pointed out that traditional morality is one of the major casualties of Millennials (ages 22-40) and Gen Zs (age 21 down to 3) replacing Boomers (ages 60-78) and Elders (79 and older) as the largest generations in the adult population.

Data from the American Worldview Inventory 2024 shows the younger generations leading a dramatic shift in the nation’s morals, including:

• A majority of adults accept lying, abortion, consensual intercourse between unmarried adults, gay marriage, and the rejection of absolute moral truth as morally acceptable.
• Less than half of all adults embrace the Bible as their primary guide to morality.
• A minority believes that every moral choice either honors or dishonors God.
• A large minority of adults accept the notion that as long as you do no harm, you may do whatever you wish.

While Millennials have disrupted and reshaped moral beliefs and behavioral norms established by Boomers and Busters (also known as Gen X, ages 41 to 59), Gen Z (born between 2003 and 2021) is maintaining or accelerating these trends—and is further reshaping and solidifying these as the new moral norms. Among the issues:

• Accepting abortion. While six out of 10 Boomers and Busters consider having an abortion to be acceptable behavior, nearly seven out of 10 Millennials (67%) and Gen Zs (69%) endorse abortion.
• Accepting consensual sex between unmarried adults. Echoing the pattern related to abortion, the AWVI 2024 shows that six out of 10 Boomers and Busters consider sexual intercourse between consenting, unmarried adults to be morally acceptable, but a higher proportion of younger adults (69% of Millennials and 73% of Gen Zs) endorse such sexual encounters.
• Refusing to repay a loan that is due. Overall, about one-quarter of adults from generations encompassing people 55 and older say they accept the refusal to repay a loan to a wealthy relative who does not push for repayment to be morally acceptable. Nearly twice as many younger adults accept such a refusal to repay what is due to be morally defensible (42% of Millennials, 50% of Gen Zs).

Perhaps inspired by the boldness of their parents or older siblings, Gen Z has also forged new levels of acceptance of other moral beliefs and behaviors, going where not even Millennials had dared to tread:

• Accepting lying. Six out of 10 Gen Zs say that lying to protect your personal best interests is morally acceptable. That far surpasses the one-half of older adults.
• Accepting behaviors that produce no apparent or significant harm. Three out of every 10 Americans (29%) from the generation that made “if it feels good, do it” a catch phrase (i.e., Boomers) maintain that it is morally acceptable to do anything you desire as long as it does no harm. That in itself is alarming. But the numbers swell with each succeeding generation. Among Gen X, 40% embrace that mindset. A solid majority of Millennials (55%) accept the mantra, which grows even larger—to two out of every three Americans—who are part of Gen Z (66%).
• Rejecting the Bible as one’s primary moral guide. A mere one out of five Gen Z representatives (21%) identify the Bible as their primary source of moral guidance. That is notably lower than the proportion of adults from older generations (29% of Millennials, 34% of Baby Busters, and 37% of Baby Boomers).

Like the Millennials before them, Gen Z reflects similar levels of support for gay marriage, the rejection of absolute moral truth, and the dismissal of the notion that every moral choice either honors or dishonors God.

Knowing that most spiritual and moral beliefs and behaviors do not change during the adult years unless a significant, life-transforming personal crisis intervenes, it is unlikely, Dr. Barna says, that the worldview elements that characterize Gen Z today will change substantially in the years to come.

Still, there are noteworthy exceptions to the worldview continuum.

For example, Gen Z is less likely than people from earlier generations (including Millennials) to believe that people are basically good. This may be a result, Dr. Barna says, of the cultural turbulence they experienced during their formative years.

The latest report from the American Worldview Inventory 2024 also looks at moral trends among different segments of the U.S. population, including by church affiliation, theological perspective, and by political views.

See the full report from Dr. Barna, “Explaining America’s 40-Year Drop in Biblical Worldview – And How to Reverse that Decline,” for additional data and more information about the American Worldview Inventory 2024: A National Survey of Biblical and Competing Worldviews.

George Barna, Director of Research
Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University