The Bible has become the lost book in churches across America today.
We know this is true because many Christians in many churches never take their Bibles to church with them.
We also know that Bible verses are printed on church programs, and therefore people have been conditioned to know that ministers will add nothing new, nor take away, from the church program because the program must go on as programmed.
Consequently, the people become participants in the program: they sit on time, stand on time, sing some songs, say some prayers, drop some money in the plate, have the benediction, then leave the building.
As such, everything was accomplished in a set amount of time, according to the program, and everybody is happy. Now they are free to return to the other arenas of their lives on time as if church was just another arena in their way of life.
This also explains why many Christians never desire to talk about the Bible outside of church buildings: they are never instructed in the Bible as well as because they are never encouraged to read or study the Bible after leaving the buildings. To them, church is the same as a religion, and going to church is the religious thing to do: or a tradition that was handed to them from a previous generation.
Obviously, they are doing no more or no less than the previous generation, and they will contribute nothing different to the generation they are leading to be like them.
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 23: 1)
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing that thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame." (Hosea 4: 6-7)
We know this is true because many Christians in many churches never take their Bibles to church with them.
We also know that Bible verses are printed on church programs, and therefore people have been conditioned to know that ministers will add nothing new, nor take away, from the church program because the program must go on as programmed.
Consequently, the people become participants in the program: they sit on time, stand on time, sing some songs, say some prayers, drop some money in the plate, have the benediction, then leave the building.
As such, everything was accomplished in a set amount of time, according to the program, and everybody is happy. Now they are free to return to the other arenas of their lives on time as if church was just another arena in their way of life.
This also explains why many Christians never desire to talk about the Bible outside of church buildings: they are never instructed in the Bible as well as because they are never encouraged to read or study the Bible after leaving the buildings. To them, church is the same as a religion, and going to church is the religious thing to do: or a tradition that was handed to them from a previous generation.
Obviously, they are doing no more or no less than the previous generation, and they will contribute nothing different to the generation they are leading to be like them.
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 23: 1)
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing that thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame." (Hosea 4: 6-7)
But God, who is rich in mercy and grace, offers His solution:
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
"Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer in this place.
"For now have I chosen this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually." (2nd Chronicles 7: 14-16)
And let not the Bible become the lost book in your life, but rather:
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2nd Timothy 2: 15)
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