Recent Barna studies have found that 60% of Americans who identify as Christian do not regularly attend church, pray, or read their Bibles, and that many Christians have taken beliefs from other religions and schools of thought that are seamlessly integrated into their own thinking – often without ever realizing that these views are in sharp contrast to the truths found in the Bible. As Brooke Hempell, senior VP of research for Barna asserts: “The call for the Church, and its teachers and thinkers, is to help Christians dissect popular beliefs before allowing them to settle in their own
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