Pastor's Corner

for Sunday April 26th
Our churches are shrinking!
Here's a scary statistic, some say that 86 to 88% of our young people, the "twenty-something's", are leaving the church and never return! When these young people leave home to go to college or into the business sector they are unprepared for the secular world-view and the challenges to their faith and as a result, their faith is destroyed. The reason for this, according to the "experts", is due to wide spread biblical illiteracy. In other words, our young people are leaving the church because they have no doctrinal underpinning to their faith; no foundation to support them under the weight of a secular world-view. The Psalmist says, "How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word." (Psa. 119:9) In other words, God's word must be our sure foundation if we are to withstand the storms of life. However, my concern goes further than our young people. I believe that the vast majority of people who call themselves Christian today do not have a good biblical foundation. And if they are not solidly grounded in the word of God they too will be destroyed when "life" challenges their faith. When the storms of life blow against our house, we must know what we believe and why we believe it or our house will come crashing down! Daily reading of God's word and regularly sitting under the teaching of God's word is critical to the survival of the believer. Underpinning your faith with solid biblical truth is vital. Know what you believe and why you believe it. Don't be a part of the statistic mentioned above, be a part of those who turn that statistic around by building your life on the word of truth, the Holy scriptures.
Pastor Don.