Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler Jr. has marked his 25th anniversary in his position by warning about the most pressing issue facing the church.
“Among the many challenges the church will face in the present and coming generations, few will equal the challenge of maintaining a steadfast commitment to biblical Christianity in the midst of an increasingly hostile environment. Cultural hostility takes more than one form and can pose as seduction rather than as coercion. This challenge also includes our responsibility to transmit the Christian faith intact and in full integrity from generation to generation,” Mohler says in the October issue of Table Talk magazine.
He argued that a similar challenge once was faced in ancient Israel, and throughout every age of the church. The author said that especially when looking at Western Europe, the generational transfer of the faith can be seen as a difficult task.
“Recent research indicates that the rate of young Europeans with no religious identity has risen so quickly that biblical Christianity threatens to disappear in any institutional form from throughout much of Europe….
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