ADAM2.ORG - Updated September 10, 2022 — A recent Barna poll revealed several shocking and disturbing trends among senior church pastors. There was a time in my lifetime when a search committee took for granted the doctrinal beliefs of a prospective new senior pastor. I can speak personally to this. In all the churches I have served, not one question concerning my doctrinal beliefs was ever asked of me. I see two main reasons for this. First, by and large, the vast majority of pastors in the pulpit had a working knowledge of the major doctrinal teachings of their particular denomination, even if search committee members did not. Hence, the second cause for this failure in questioning: the majority of church members failed to possess a sound biblical view of those established doctrines themselves. Here we are in the 2nd decade of the 21st century so far removed from those historic revivals of the gospel of the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century that led not only to the ingathering of millions of souls to the church but the establishment of denominational views of biblical doctrine. Having entered what some are calling a "post-modern world" church has been successfully redefined by a new breed of "post-modern" senior leaders as a worldly magnet which holds to "whatever means necessary" in drawing new attendees to their highly scripted performances on Sunday. With the emphasis centered around the … to these Sunday attractions rather than corporate worship of the saints and the preaching and teaching of sound biblical doctrine is it any wonder we now have men, and women, and homosexuals, and transgenders, and non-binary, et.al, filling a large percentage of pulpits who no longer hold to long established sound biblical doctrine? Here are just a few of Barna's findings:

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