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Alright, everyone. Biblical illiteracy is a very real issue in the modern church. In

fact, in March of 2020, a study was released by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona

Christian University that revealed that only 6% of Americans have a Biblical worldview.

This is fascinating because life way research says that nine out of 10 Americans own a

Bible. I mean that we have many people with a Bible available to them and very few people

that hold to the world view of that Bible. Another study by Ligonier ministries earlier

this year stated that over 30% of American evangelicals and 50% of American adults don't

believe that Jesus was God. So ultimately we are beginning to see the true state of

the Western church. And unfortunately many Christians are actually part of the problem

namely that they have a general understanding of the Bible that's made up of their periodic

devotions, podcasts and Sunday sermons, but they don't have a disciplined devotional

time that reflects the degree of gratitude and love they have for the gospel of Jesus

Christ that will bring them to maturity. In other words, the question that would be posed

to you is do you have a daily commitment to a genuine and hardy study, worship, prayer

and praise time that has been fruitful and edifying for you? If not today I'd like to

share not only what I do for my personal devotional time but get down to the root of the American

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