Recent surveys indicate fewer Americans are claiming the Christian faith as their own. However, the bigger concern is that more and more people who claim faith are actually choosing to live their lives as if there were no God. How sad! What that means is they have no true and unchanging source of Authority to live by. There is no Creator who exercises loving control over their existence. They have no daily Source of guidance beyond the prevailing but fickle winds of current culture. They have no Redeemer to rescue them from their sin nature. They cannot turn to a Provider to meet their needs for daily sustenance, comfort for sorrow, protection from the devourer, and significance for an otherwise brief and meaningless existence. And maybe most dreadful of all, they have no sense of security for what happens after this life is through.
