So You Believe in Christ, Do You? Are You Sure?

Allow me to describe an all too common phenomenon in human experience. A previous generation of human beings strive and struggle to make or accomplish a great achievement only to see later generations squander the hard earned fruits of the previous generation’s labors. For example, a father who works and slaves to build a business empire to leave to his son only to see the son (or maybe the grandson) run the business empire into the ground. This doesn’t always happen, but it frequently happens.

OK, so what does this have to do with Christianity? A lot! Today’s average American evangelical Christian does not have a strong grasp on theology and church history, and this is a bad thing. It’s not to say that every Christian has to be a professional theologian or church historian, but Christians should have some rudimentary knowledge of what they believe and how what they believe came to be. In our educational institutions, we teach our children American history and we also teach them the U.S. Constitution. Now you can make all sorts of arguments as to the quality of this education; that’s not the point. The point is that as a society, we feel it’s important to impart to our children the history of our nation and the principles upon which this nation was founded.    Continue Reading...