A new survey found that less than 1/5 of Americans believe life’s purpose is knowing and loving God.
According to the American Worldview Inventory from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, the survey revealed that Americans largely do not believe in a life spent serving God.
The survey included 2,000 American respondents polled both via phone and online, The Christian Post reports.
The data showed that 86 percent of Americans believe in a “universal, shared purpose” of human life, and 66 percent said they believe they have a “unique, God-given calling or purpose.”
Only 18 percent said the universal purpose is “knowing, loving and serving God.”
“Even among the 71 percent of Americans who consider themselves to be Christians, fewer than 20 percent adopt the biblical view that our purpose is to know, love and serve God,” an analysis of the data reads.
The data instead found that most Americans, including Christians, believe in their unique purpose but not a purpose that includes God at the center.
“The disconnect is staggering,” said CRC Director of Research George Barna, a longtime evangelical pollster and founder of The Barna Group.
“As a nation, we yearn for purpose and calling, ideas deeply rooted within our nation’s historical Christian faith and biblical understanding of God,” he added in a statement.
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