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Ärende: Confused, Ken Ham sure is.
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-> From WingNutDaily...I mean WorldNetDaily:
-> 
-> "Prevent your children from leaving the faith this Christmas?
-> 
-> If you look around in your church today, two-thirds of the young people
-> have already left in their hearts; soon they will be gone for good.
-> 
-> That is the alarming conclusion of the first scientific study of its
-> kind, the Beemer Report, which reveals startling facts discovered
-> through 20,000 phone calls and detailed surveys of a thousand 20-29 year
-> olds who used to attend evangelical churches on a regular basis, but
-> have since left it behind.
-> 
-> In "Already Gone: Why your kids will quit church and what you can do to
-> stop it,"

I'd like to know what he things can be 'done about it' ...:-) 

 popular author Ken Ham and consumer behavior analyst, C. Britt
-> Beemer, combine to reveal trends that must be dealt with now... before
-> we lose another generation.

Deal with them trends!



-> 
-> The study found that we are losing our kids in elementary, middle
-> school, and high school rather than college, and the Sunday school
-> syndrome is contributing to the epidemic, rather than helping alleviate
-> it.

I knew that.

-> 
-> The results are not just surprising; they're shocking:

Not surprising, not shocking.
-> 
-> * Those who faithfully attend Sunday School are more likely to leave the
-> church than those who do not.
Of course ANY analysis, questioning will do it. Pasters are about 80 years
behind in biblical study. A case in point: (Oops it's not nice to dis
another echo...)

-> 
-> * Those who regularly attend Sunday School are more likely to believe
-> that the Bible is less true.
Literalism is bound to decline. 
-> 
-> * Those who regularly attend Sunday School are actually more likely to
-> defend that abortion and gay marriage should be legal.
That's not Sunday school, that is sanity coming to the surface...
-> 
-> * Those who regularly attend Sunday School are actually more likely to
-> defend premarital sex.
(Guilt sometimes comes out when taking a survey...) :-)

-> 
-> The trends may unnerve you - they may shake long-held assumptions to the
-> core - but "Already Gone" shows how to fight back for our families, our
-> churches and our world.

Oh, sure (yawn)

-> 
-> In the "Already Gone" companion DVD, Ken Ham discusses the profound
-> cultural changes taking place in our Western world, as God's Word is
-> rejected and man's fallible ideas are welcomed. Ken relates some of the
-> shocking statistics presented in the book, and reveals the reasons why
-> young people are leaving church and abandoning the faith of their
-> parents."

I though he was going to have some earth changing suggestions as to what to
do about this terrible terrible condition.
I've a clue:
Just tell the truth as best we know.
Lower textual criticism and hermeneutics are seldom espoused from the Lectern.
When churchmen stop being afraid of the truth and of losing their exalted
position...
Perhaps the morality as taught by Jesus might come into play. 
NOONE pays attention to the Sermon on the Mount...when my Church proclaimed
'no one can' and 'it's just there to indicate that you need to be saved' is
when I gave up.
Few pastors would like to have ME give a bible-class. It's one helluva good
book. :-)
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