Resources for Episode 015: The New and Dominant World Religion
Your Child’s Profession of Faith:
Want a simple but biblical approach to sharing and explaining the Gospel to your children so that they can do more than parrot a prayer. This helpful little work helps you develop a better approach to evangelizing your little (or not so little children).
Simplifying the Bible for Children: the Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd Jones:
“Every story whispers His name” is true and useful.
Simple Bibles that you can read together with as a family:
Sometimes it seems hard to “get started” or to “restart.” Here are two Bible translations to buy for you, your spouse, and your children to read and follow along together. Be sure and get the same exact Bible for each of you so that you can point to page numbers if necessary.
English Standard Version: today’s dominant translation.
Christian Standard Bible (formerly Holman Christian Standard Bible): A Bible translation that blends the readability of the old NIV with the translation accuracy of both the New American Standard (NASB) and the English Standard Version (ESV).
If you don’t want to use Amazon, click here for an affordable alternative.
Helpful articles on Moralistic Therapeutic Deism:
Here are helpful articles that discuss this “new” worldview that is supplanting Christianity in youth groups, churches, and elsewhere. Al Mohler’s article is particularly helpful and thought provoking.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (Wikipedia)
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism—the New American Religion (Albert Mohler)
The book that identified and named the problem of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Instead of reading the study, read the summary with an action plan:
Almost Christian: What the Faith of Teenagers is Telling us About the American Church