Are we amusing ourselves to the point of ignorance? One only needs to look around and see most people occupied with a smartphone, a controller to an electronic device, or earbuds listening to music. Reading is steadily declining year after year while test scores do the same. 33% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42% of college graduates never read another book after college. Almost a third of the people in America have not read a book in the last 12 months, and even higher percentages in some ethnic and economic demographics. They are knowledgeable of movies and movie stars, music and musicians, games, television sitcoms yet so ignorant of things that truly matter. This is displayed in videos when college-aged kids were asked what 3x3x3 is or what two countries abut the United States and they had no clue.

This problem has certainly weakened the church and Christians as well. Far too many Christians rarely or inconsistently read their Bible and are woefully uneducated about it. It even affects our pulpits where you may just as easily hear a feel-good, pep-talk sermon as serious Bible teaching and preaching. This does not bode well for our future, and even more so in the church where ignorance of the Word can mean the difference between eternity in heaven or eternity in hell. In my early days as a Christian, I heard a lot about the dangers of worldly entertainment. Perhaps our forefathers weren’t so legalistic after all.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.