Sixty-four percent of adults and eighty-three percent of teenagers believe in relativism. In other words, there are no absolutes. (Barna and Gallup Research Statistics) By God's grace and grace alone, I believe in absolutes. The Bible is the inerrant Word of the Creator God. It is as Francis Schaeffer calls it, "true truth"! And by the power of the Holy Spirit, there stirs in me a hunger for that truth. And by the look of just this one statistic, our work as believers is definitely cut out for us. For, as Craig Branch, director of Apologetics Research Center, made clear to us, evangelism is the weakest link for the Christian. And the negative statistics will only rise if we don't wake up.
So, Dr. Branch gave us this assignment: When you wake up each day, follow the directions of Colossians 4:2-6. I'll not write out the passage here, read it for yourself, but it starts like this, "Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it..."
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