What Denominational Leaders Don’t Believe

In a poll conducted by sociologist Jeffrey Hadden and reported in Pulpit Helps, 10,000 "clergymen" were asked about their belief in some fundamental Bible truths. Here are the AMAZING results:

% that do             Scriptures         Vigin            Physical

NOT believe:        inspired &          birth            resurrection

                             Inerrant                                   of Jesus

Methodists             87%                60%                51%

Presbyterians         82%                49%                35%

Episcopalians         95%                44%                30%

Lutherans               77%                19%                13%

Baptists                  67%                34%                 33%

Are you surprised that only 40% of Methodists believe in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ? Does it shock you that fully one third of Baptists deny the physical resurrection or our Savior? Actually these results are to be expected when you analyze the low percentage or religious leaders who respect the absolute authority of the inspired word or God. For instance, only 5% of Episcopalian leaders believe that the Bible is inspired and inerrant! Not too surprising then that they have trouble believing what the scriptures teach on any other subject. These same folks plead for unity in the religious world, yet they deny the only true basis for such unity. In fact, their own attitude toward the Bible is the taproot of all division and denominationalism. We must believe, as Jesus said, "Thy word is truth" (In 17:17).

- by Greg Gwin