Gadget Pastor

Chalk it up to laziness, apathy, resting on your laurels, however you look at it — Christian churches are stagnate and ineffective. We have brought in so much of the world into our churches and personal lives that we have forgotten we are a “…chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” Many in our ranks are discouraged, perhaps even have given up hope of making a difference. Is the battle lost?

Not at all. We just have far more opportunities than we have had in recent years. More opportunities to reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is an exciting time to be alive and be a Christian. Compared to what the disciples had access to, our websites, our printing presses, our emails, our tweets, and our blogs make spreading the Good News far easier– perhaps that is the problem. Christianity has become to easy and we have a generation of soft Christians– no sacrifice, no determination, no service for the King.

We have time to make a difference. Every minute and every moment look for those evangelistic opportunities. Take a stand for your Savior, for many take a stand against Him.

“A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.

Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.

More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.

The survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life aimed to test a broad range of religious knowledge, including understanding of the Bible, core teachings of different faiths and major figures in religious history. The U.S. is one of the most religious countries in the developed world, especially compared to largely secular Western Europe, but faith leaders and educators have long lamented that Americans still know relatively little about religion.”

via FOXNews.com – Survey: Many Americans Know Little About Religion.