LifeWay Christian Resources

The facts don't, the statistics don't add up with that.

If you look at LifeWay Research, they came out with a recent statistic that says 94% of church growth in America is transfer growth.

It's from Christians moving to other churches.

Only 6% of church growth in America is conversion growth.

We went.

Lifeway Research reports that two in three churchgoers fail a Bible literacy quiz.

The survey asked thousands of American Christians dozens of questions about general Bible knowledge.

The average respondent scored 51.

65% earned an F, scoring below 60.

Only 8% earned an A, scoring 90 and higher.

Lifeway Research noted, "...perhaps unsurprisingly, those who attend church the most and read the Bible the most scored the highest on the Bible literacy quiz." Psalm 119 verses 15 and 16 says, I will meditate on your precepts and contemplate your ways.

I will delight myself in your statutes.

There is no doubt that for a very long period of time that the Southern Baptists were moved intentionally to the left.

There is no doubt that a lot of the materials coming out of Lifeway Christian Resources, which used to be, by the way, they used to be called the Baptist Sunday School Board, which is where every Southern Baptist church got their Vacation Bible School material, got their Sunday School material, discipleship training material, the whole nine yards.

And, of course, they renamed it to become Lifeway Christian Resources, and they pretty much ran the whole thing into the ground.

I mean, it's just awful what's happened.

I'm going to tell you about my experience.

To your point, Bobby, they came and asked me to write a book because I'm a Southern Baptist, and I said, happy to do it.

And so I wrote a book, and it was my second or third book, and it was about Obama and the policies of the Obama administration.

Bobby, I got a call from my editor there at Lifeway Christian Resources, and they said that somebody went through and they counted and there were more references to Obama than Jesus in my book.

With me today, CBN's Madison Seals.

And Madison, on the focus story, a new Lifeway research report shows two-thirds of churchgoers failing a biblical literacy quiz

yeah this report reveals a very poor understanding of the bible from people who supposedly take in scripture at least once a week but say they take it in throughout the week too so we'll get into the details of that for today's focus

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All right, we're gonna go to the focus story now.

And a new LifeWay research report shows around two thirds of churchgoers failed a biblical literacy quiz.

So tell me more about this report, Madison.

So dramatic testimony there.

And here's an item we'll close with, researchers at Lifeway Research.

They surveyed 2012 American churchgoers.

This is during the month of August in 2026.