Biblical Illiteracy and the Effects on the Church

IT'S EFFECTS ON CHURCHES

Churches languish for lack of teachers; teachers are few for lack of knowledge - He 5:12

2. Churches are led astray by false teachers and false doctrine, for how can the ignorant know what is false? - cf. 2Pe 2:1-3

-- How many churches are "dying on the vine", or into wholesale apostasy because their members cannot discern between truth and error...?

C. ITS EFFECT ON COMMUNITIES...

1. Our standards of morality are skewed, where good is evil and evil is good - cf. Isa 5:20

a. We slaughter the innocent (abortion), sparing the guilty (no capital punishment)