Called By Christ To Be ONE: No Longer Biblical: Franklin Graham Excoriates Pastoral Survey

Heaven Is Our Destination Where We Will Be ONE With The Lord Forever

Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!

Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!

Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

Monday, September 12, 2022

No Longer Biblical: Franklin Graham Excoriates Pastoral Survey

The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University released a shocking survey on May 10. The CRC administered a survey to 1,000 Christian pastors in the hopes of gaining a more in-depth understanding of their thoughts and behaviors.

The discovery that only 37% of the pastors surveyed had a biblical worldview was enough to catch the attention of Franklin Graham.

"I don't know which 1,000 pastors this group surveyed, but the results are concerning," Graham tweeted.

"39% of 'evangelical' pastors they asked said there is no absolute moral truth & that 'each individual must determine their own truth.' What a lie."

Graham also took issue with the result of 30% of the survey respondents do not believe that salvation was based on the confession of sins and accepting Jesus as Savior:

"The survey also said that 30% of evangelical pastors do not believe that their salvation is based on having confessed their sins & accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. This kind of false teaching is what is leading people & churches astray.

"The Bible is God's Word, from cover to cover. It is the absolute truth—it is what counts, not our opinion."

The survey shares a particularly disturbing comparison with the 37% of Christian pastors who hold a biblical worldview: only 2% of parents of preteens hold this view as well. These shockingly low numbers across the board give credence to Graham's questioning of who exactly the participants were, and whether there was an agenda behind the survey.

The survey took eight categories on which to base a pastor's worldview:

Purpose, Calling
Family, Value of Life
God, Creation, History
Faith Practices
Sin, Salvation, God Relationship
Human Character and Nature
Lifestyle, Behavior, Relationship
Bible, Truth, Morals

The only pastoral position that had a majority believe in the biblical worldview of a single section was 60% of Senior/Lead pastors, who believe in the biblical worldview in Purpose/Calling. Every other pastoral position, (Assistant/Associate, Teaching, Executive, Children's/Youth) had a biblical worldview in the minority of how they believed.

The categories with the lowest ratings of biblical worldview from all pastoral positions was "Lifestyle/Behavior/Relationship," including Senior/Lead 44%; Assistant/Associate 29%; Teaching 17%; Executive 5%; and Children's/Youth 20%.

As pastors throughout history have preached, the repentance of sin precedes revival. With many Christians worldwide praying for revival, it makes sense that the devil would seek to make sin acceptable in the church, as opposed to turning away from it in sincere repentance. By identifying the symptoms, Christians know how to attack the problem. If pastors, and by extension parishioners, of churches are abandoning the biblical worldview of creation and creating a godless society, they can solve it with inviting Christ back.

With a biblical worldview, as Pastor Franklin Graham is claiming, at the forefront of a pastor's philosophy, so too will a congregation's mindset be on God first and foremost.