They  are darkened in their understanding,  alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to  their hardness of heart. ( Ephesians 4:18 ) Part 2 of a 3 part series  A knife to a Gun fight! In the last blog we addressed the fact that the church was dwindling in size, most visibly the size of members from age 18-35. We looked at four reasons that those that once attended church gave for no longer attending, or converting to another religion.   They were;      ( 1 )What the Bible says about slavery;    ( 2 ) Their imagined intellectual integrity;    ( 3 )As Christians we have a low intellectual view of ourselves, and the God which gives us knowledge and wisdom . ( 4 ) We have perpetuated ignorance of the Bible doctrine. In this blog we will address what we did to get ourselves in this predicament. And in the last installment I’ll address what we need to do to fix what is broken....

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with [ a ] great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2Tim 4:1-7 ) In response to a post I made not too long ago someone asked "Why do we have to defend Bible Doctrine? " What is Defending Bible Doctrine? Defending Bible doctrine is acknowledging that something taught or expressed is not in line with what the Bible revels about God, His plan for mankind, or creation, It could be something as...