How did we lose our kids – good ‘church’ kids – to the world when we are the best at playing church. When we have the best electronics and entertainment gadgetry to keep the youth in pews. When we have e-bibles; paraphrased bibles; backpack bibles; water-proof bibles; metal-cased bibles; study bibles; men’s bibles; womens’ bibles; Pentecostal bibles; bible on dvd; audio bibles, YouVersion Bibles; Gideon Bibles….and TONS OF DUSTY BIBLES ON SHELVES IN AMERICAN HOMES….because nobody is ready them!!!!!! Nobody, that is, except the ONLY 9% of American Adults who have the only view that counts with God – A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW! It is even worse with our teens/college aged young people.

Back in 2009, Ken Ham wrote the Christian book shocker of the Decade when “ALREADY GONE” hit the book stands. It was an indictment against EVERY adult Christian – leader and parent – who have ever pastored, been a church elder/deacon, or taught in a church in any capacity. I remember buying several copies and handing the book out to Fellowship of Christian Athlete and youth leadership to make them aware of what was happening around us.

It has long been known that history repeats itself. The oft quoted quip of Santayana has been stated in many ways since, but it still stands that “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” The things of the past are our tutors. We lean and trust on those with silver crowns because its by their wisdom and experience that we learn the lessons of life and good decision making. We also learn from histories how nations stand and how they fall by searching out their strengths and weaknesses—what their leaders stood for and what they stood against. Those who fail to do so throw caution to the wind and their leadership is marked out by the fickleness of emotionalism, narcissism, the lusts of the flesh, and a thirst for success and power rather than the discipline of the soul; moreover, whether in their day or in the days that follow destruction eventually ensues.