The church's greatest threat today isn't external opposition.

The biggest threat comes from an internal irrelevance, born from biblical illiteracy and cultural compromise.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall sounds an urgent alarm.

We're witnessing a dangerous erosion of theological knowledge and world engagement among believers.

But there's hope.

And in today's study, Chuck delivers a clarion call to action, challenging Christians

to stop merely surviving and start thriving through deeper

scripture study, authentic community, and spirit-empowered witness. Teaching from Romans chapter 15,

Chuck titled today's message, Encouraging Words of Affirmation. Back in 1993, Dr. David Wells released a book that shook up the evangelical world.

He called it No Place for Truth with a subtitle or whatever happened to evangelical theology.

In the book he describes the erosion that has been occurring,

the theological drift,

churches losing their influence, turning more toward entertainment.

This is in 93.

The embarrassing ignorance of biblical and theological knowledge. James Montgomery

Boyce in his fine work on Romans, fourth volume, writes this regarding the same subject.

A while ago I asked the faculty at, and he names an evangelical seminary, I'll not name it.

I asked the faculty at an evangelical seminary what changes they had noticed in seminary students in recent years.

As I read this by the way, I thought about my alma mater, Dallas Seminary, and I thought, could this be said of us? Probably so. Boyce continues,

David Wells was present at this gathering, and he replied that he had noticed four things. First,

that each entering class was more biblically illiterate than the last. Second, each class seemed to be filled with more

individuals who were swamped with their own personal problems and thus were thinking mostly about

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