The Bible's Use of the Term 'Remnant'

I followed up on the recent Barna poll information provided by last month’s WCN article by Sam Rohrer on how much the Bible has been pushed out of American life.  Barna’s report showed that nearly half of Americans have little to no interaction with the Word at all! The poll also indicated that only about 7% of those who are believers are regularly and consistently engaged in the Word and activities relating to faith. This is down from 9% the year before. 

   In the ‘80s and ‘90s, there were a slew of reports from various branches of Christianity about revivals supposed to be going on, yet the percentage of adults polled about being consistent in faith expressions during that era hovered right about 12%, with no major changes over the years.  Remember though, that even this percentage was low among believers, so if 12%, (and now 7%), are serious about their faith that means that around 90% of professing believers, often identified by their church affiliation, did NOT practice a lifestyle centered in the Word.  Many polls over years continue to confirm that the majority of His people are basically Biblically illiterate.

    Now we see a drastic change!  Not only are we distressed to know how many within the churches really don’t know the Word, the written foundation of our faith, we see that half of those we meet elsewhere may really have no understanding of the Word at all ...

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