Do You Ever Read Your Bible?
For members in this forum, we would expect the answer will overwhelmingly be: “Yes!”; but I was curious about friends, neighbors and coworkers.
So I did some brief research.
News sources tell us that approximately 9 out of ten (87 percent) of U.S. homes have at least one Bible, according to the American Bible Society, and in fact, the average household has three Bibles! So far so good.
Roughly 50 percent of American adults confirmed they were reading Scripture at least three times a year, between the years of 2011 to 2021; which sounds encouraging.
But then, suddenly in 2022, that number declined to 39 percent according to American Bible Society surveys.
We all know the Bible is far and away the all time best selling book in the world. However, it has also been said, “The Bible is the best-selling, but least read, and least understood book."
Like most things in life there is probably not a single reason for this drop, however, with all that seems to be going on in our world you might think more people would be turning to scripture for solace and illumination.
So why the sudden drop in reading scripture?
For members in this forum, we would expect the answer will overwhelmingly be: “Yes!”; but I was curious about friends, neighbors and coworkers.
So I did some brief research.
News sources tell us that approximately 9 out of ten (87 percent) of U.S. homes have at least one Bible, according to the American Bible Society, and in fact, the average household has three Bibles! So far so good.
Roughly 50 percent of American adults confirmed they were reading Scripture at least three times a year, between the years of 2011 to 2021; which sounds encouraging.
But then, suddenly in 2022, that number declined to 39 percent according to American Bible Society surveys.
We all know the Bible is far and away the all time best selling book in the world. However, it has also been said, “The Bible is the best-selling, but least read, and least understood book."
Like most things in life there is probably not a single reason for this drop, however, with all that seems to be going on in our world you might think more people would be turning to scripture for solace and illumination.
So why the sudden drop in reading scripture?