Lukewarm: Reviving The Church

In a pamphlet Benjamin Franklin wrote to Europeans commending life in the United States, he said, Atheism is unknown there; infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. And the Divine Being seems...pleased to favor the whole country." The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention recently said this to a victim of clergy sexual abuse, Abuse is sad. But because of that pesky matter of church autonomy, we can t remove predatory pastors from the pulpit. Please stop calling and emailing about your suffering. Our hands are tied, but we hear prayer heals all wounds. God bless. What has happened to the church between Benjamin Franklin's day and today? This is the question that author Craig Olson tries to address in Lukewarm: Reviving the Church. He compares lifestyles of Christians from periods of great religious revival to those of today to determine whether the contemporary Christian lifestyle is more a product of American culture than sound Bible teaching.