{"id":142589,"date":"2026-01-14T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142589"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:30:58","slug":"ct-jen-wilkin-the-great-omission-weve-neglected-the-rigor-of-learning-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142589","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Jen Wilkin&#8211;The Great Omission: We\u2019ve neglected the rigor of learning the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our lack of biblical literacy compounds into theological illiteracy. When we don\u2019t know our Bibles, it follows that we will also lose our theological moorings. Last year\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thestateoftheology.com\/\">State of Theology report<\/a>&nbsp;by Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research gave a stark assessment of local church discipleship. Surveying evangelicals on basic Christian belief, they found the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In response to the statement \u201cGod accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam,\u201d 47% of evangelicals agreed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In response to the statement \u201cEveryone is born innocent in the eyes of God,\u201d 64% of evangelicals agreed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In response to the statement \u201cJesus was a great teacher, but he was not God,\u201d 28% of evangelicals agreed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Something is wrong. Each of these statements can be easily challenged as faulty with relatively little Bible knowledge. How can our churches be filled with people who are active and involved but have so little biblical grounding to show for it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2026\/01\/bible-reading-plan-literacy-jen-wilkin\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The discipleship gap:<br><br>\u201cWe have followed a discipleship strategy of lowering the bar on learning environments\u2026We beg people apologetically to come to a 6-week study, promising it won\u2019t have homework. Yet people want to do hard things.\u201d <br><br>Read the article:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VoPSE3EV3M\">https:\/\/t.co\/VoPSE3EV3M<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jen Wilkin (@jenniferwilkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenniferwilkin\/status\/2009291263120376012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lack of biblical literacy compounds into theological illiteracy. When we don\u2019t know our Bibles, it follows that we will also lose our theological moorings. Last year\u2019s&nbsp;State of Theology report&nbsp;by Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research gave a stark assessment of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142589\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,434,184,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-adult-education","category-parish-ministry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142593,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142589\/revisions\/142593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}