Are there people out there who are disconnecting with the church and Christianity? Sure there are. It happened in Jesus’ day and it happens now. At the same time there are those coming to faith in God every day. But I feel that there is a missing piece of information that must be dealt with for us to see the survey results better.

Assessing these survey results requires a need to settle on what “Christian” even means. Historically in our country, the word Christian almost has been synonymous with the word American. If you’re American, then you’re Christian. You were Christian because your parents were Christians and their parents were Christians whether you were active in a church or active even in your belief system or not. You were considered Christian by birthright. That is distinctly counter to the Bible’s claims of true Christianity.

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