In the last couple years, the trend of the best seller books has change rapidly. Many of them are Christianity related christian mysticism. The books are from the well known ‘Purpose Driven Live’ by Rick Warren to the fiction book ‘The DaVinci Code’ by Dan Brown. This trend is the affect on the change of the world’s ideology in the last five years.
The problem to Christianity rise when many Christians can’t distinguish between facts and fictions in books like the DaVinci Code or other similar fiction books. Even worse, the number of misleading Christian is not lesser than the non Christian. A lot of time when a non-Christian ask religious question to Christians, they simply give them vague answers. This shows that Christian people do not know better about Christian theology comparing to non-Christian people.
Nowadays, you can find it easily the fiction books that are trying to change the truth of Christianity believe in your neighborhood bookstore, because the books have been the best seller books. With such strong influences, some questions are rise among us. The questions are why such mistaken believe can be builted gradually or even exists among Christian? Shouldn’t be the Christian more critical with those trend or fiction books? Shouldn’t Christian be the defender of their beliefs?
Clearly, there are serious issues with Christianity today. In this article, you will find that there are two main current issues that Christianity is facing.
Inward problem within Christianity
First issue is inward problem within Christianity. The inward problem can be divided into two major concerns, which are the lack of biblical knowledge, and lack of fellowship.
Most of Christians are lack of biblical knowledge. According to Barna Group Survey only 47 percent of Christian in the US read the Scripture during a typical week. Bible is God’s Word, and the foundation of Christian belief. Thus, many Christian doesn’t know their fundamental believe anymore. If we, as Christian, don’t even read the Scripture anymore, how can we distinguish the biblical truth? In 2 Timothy 3:16, it is clearly stated that ‘All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
As Christians we always have to strengthen our fellowship with God and among believers. Also according to the survey, church attendance is only 47 percent in 2006 and Sunday school attendance is only 24 percent at the same year. Church and Sunday school are where Christian can gather and build fellowship with God and within Christian community.
