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Mark Snowden Evangelism-Discipleship Strategist Missouri Baptist Convention. 461 Years!. 9,700. 20 million Americans stopped reading over the past 20 years. U.S. Dept. of Education. BIBLE AVAILABILITY. 6,900+ 513 1,294 1,707 1,900 approx. 15. Number of languages:
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Mark Snowden Evangelism-Discipleship Strategist Missouri Baptist Convention
461 Years! 9,700
20 million Americans stopped reading over the past 20 years. U.S. Dept. of Education
BIBLE AVAILABILITY 6,900+ 513 1,294 1,707 1,900 approx. 15 • Number of languages: • Bibles translated: • Adequate NTs: • Projects underway: • Bibleless languages: • Years to produce a Bible: Source: Wycliffe 2013
One out of three college graduates are not proficient at reading. 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, U.S. Dept. of Education
80% of American families didn’t buy a single book last year. And it’s not looking so good for this year either.
Just one of eight men on average attend a weekly Bible study. Barna Research
MOST PEOPLE CREATE THEIR OWN THEOLOGY Most Christians in the U.S. do not believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit exist. – George Barna, April 2009
Only two percent of born again evangelical teenagers have a biblical worldview. -- George Barna Think Like Jesus
One in six adult Missourians don’t have the literacy skills to fill out a simple job application. (and this is slightly above the national average) www.literacyroundtable.org/resources/brochure.pdf
Learning Pyramid Average Retention Rate 5% Lecture 10% Reading National Training Lab Bethel, Maine Audio/visual 20% Demonstration 30% Discussion group 50% Learning by doing 75% Teaching one-to-one 90% Adapted from http://lowery.tamu.edu/Teaming/Morgan1/sld023.htm
Normal Spiritual Development Process Dead Born Again Unbelief Characterized by Ignorance Characterized by Intentionality Characterized by Service Characterized by Selfishness
When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth . . . He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. -- Jesus John 16:13a–14 NIV
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Mark Snowden Evangelism-Discipleship Strategist Missouri Baptist Convention