Pastor's World View

Does anyone see a parallel here? How could you miss it? Has there ever been a day when there was a greater departure from the Word of God than there is today? Has there ever been a time when more preachers were being defrocked for moral failure and run in shame from their ministry. Has there ever been a time when the message was less compromised than it is today?

George Barna interviewed 601 Senior pastors nationwide. They represented a random cross-section of Protestant churches. Barna reported that only half (51%) of the country’s protestant pastors actually had a biblical world view. He defined a biblical worldview as believing that absolute truth exists, that it is based on the Bible, and that the following six core beliefs arising from its pages are absolutely true: the authority and inspiration of scripture, the sinless nature of Jesus, the literal existence of Satan, the omnipotence and omniscience of God, salvation by grace alone, and the personal responsibility to evangelize. Barna said of this:

“The most important point is that you can’t give people what you don’t have. The low percentage of Christians who have a biblical worldview is a direct reflection of the fact that half of our primary religious teachers and leaders do not have one. In some denominations, the vast majority of clergy do not have a biblical worldview, and it shows up clearly in the data related to the theological views and moral choices of people who attend those churches.