As a child, Lauren Green McAfee remembers waking up each day before the sun rose to learn math from her dad before he left for work at 7 a.m. And every time she entered his study, he would always be reading his Bible.
That left a deep impression on her.
“Me seeing him take the time every morning to be reading the Bible … was a spark that communicated to me this is a book that’s important. He’s carving out the time to spend time reading the Bible … I want to know what this is about,” McAfee said during a Parenting Teens Summit session on Wednesday.
She made it clear that her father was a busy man. He had four children, homeschooled all of them, and was part of a family business of getting Hobby Lobby started. Her father is Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, the world’s largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer.
McAfee recalled her dad’s devotion to the Bible as she was commenting on the rise of biblical illiteracy in America and how more and more people are simply not engaging God’s Word anymore.
“I think a lot of young people today don’t see how the Bible relates to what they’re living out, just kind of every day life — with their friends, at school and all the things that’s going on in their world. And also, they see the Bible as complicated,” she said. “So it’s this complicated book that doesn’t seem to apply to my life, so why should I spend time in it?”
Today McAfee is the director of Community Engagement…
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