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....