Final Conclusion:

Even with the proliferation of Bibles today, Christians are reading their Bibles less and less. I believe the evangelical church has only 50 years of life left. 50 years left of evangelicalism because of marginalization of the Word of God.

We need another Reformation!

The enemy of the gospel now is not religious hierarchy but moral anarchy, not tradition - but entertainment. The enemy of the gospel is Protestantism run amuck it is an anti-intellectual, anti-knowledge, feel-good faith that has no content and no convictions.

Part of the communal repentance that is needed is a repentance about the text. And even more importantly, there must be a repentance with regard to Christ our Lord.  Just as the Bible has been marginalized, Jesus Christ has been ‘buddy-ized.’  His transcendence and majesty are only winked at, as we turn him into the genie in the bottle, beseeching God for more conveniences, more luxury, less hassle, and a life without worries or lack of comfort.  He no longer wears the face that the apostles recognized.  Or, as Erasmus remarked, “When you read the Greek New Testament, you can see the face of Jesus more clearly than if you were one of his disciples”!  A bit of hyperbole, but the point is worth underscoring:  The God we worship today no longer resembles the God of the Bible.  Unless we return to him through a reading and digesting of the scriptures — through a commitment to the text, the evangelical church will become irrelevant, useless, dead.