New Barna Survey

Barna conducted a survey this year (2009) among a large group of Americans. They surveyed them to discover what percentage of Americans a Biblical worldview. For the purposes of the survey, a “biblical worldview” was defined as believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic; a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or do good works; Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; and God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today. In the research, anyone who held all of those beliefs was said to have a biblical worldview. Long story short... only 9% of adults today agreed with all of those statements. In another survey, Barna discovered that the majority of Americans pick and choose their own portions of those truths to believe or not believe. For instance, a large chunk of people agreed that the Bible was true in all of its teachings, but most of those people didn't believe that the Holy Spirit was a person of the Godhead. Woops. So there is a massive buffet-type Christianity happening where very few agree to the whole story. The REAL point is this: The research data showed that one pattern emerged loud and clear: young adults rarely possess a biblical worldview. The current study found that less than one-half of one percent of adults in the Mosaic generation – i.e., those aged 18 to 23 – have a biblical worldview, compared to about one out of every nine older adults. Less than .5% have a biblical worldview... Wow that makes 4% sound like it would have been a victory. That 4% was supposed to be about THAT generation... and now it's less than .5%, those being the new voters... In the election it was obvious that that age group dropped moral truths of life and marriage. How far will this go before the church does something? http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/21-transformation/252-barna-survey-examines-changes-in-worldview-among-christians-over-the-past-13-years