Millions Open to Embracing God’s Existence:
The Latest Surveys Suggest
April 25, 2025
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Co-host: Dr. Isaac Crockett
Guest: Dr. George Barna
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 4/25/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to the Stand in the Gap Today program. It’s also our monthly emphasis on culture and values and biblical worldview with Dr. George Barna, founder of the original Barna Research Group, and now director of research at the Arizona Christian University Cultural Research Center. Now generally, Dr. Isaac Crockett and I have the pleasure to engage in a practical conversation with George on the most recent monthly research release, which they do generally speaking monthly, and that comes from the cultural research center there. For the past two years, the reports have generally arisen from focused research, which we’ve identified and we’ve talked about much on this program in the area identified as American Worldview Inventory, the program earlier, the one we dealt with a couple months ago, the last two months, and now today’s program arises from their American worldview Inventory 2025. So that’s the year we’re in and that’s where it’s being pulled from.
The data is always significant as we talk about the interpretation and the analysis though always requires great wisdom. It always does. When you have good data, the next challenge is how do you interpret it? Interpret it honestly, the implementation and the course correction in the minds and the hearts of the American citizen and specifically American Christians as a result of this information. Again, we say it requires what? Well, both humility, a willingness to be renewed in our minds as Romans 12, one speaks, and the courage and the commitment to change our lives as a result and to pursue holiness in the fear of God rather than to ignore the data and remain on a course of conformity to this world. Now that’s really what it comes down to, and that is the essence of why we present this data. We want everyone listening to become disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ and to be like him. Now that’s the goal. So with that being said, that is my introductory comments here. The title I’ve chosen to frame our discussion today is this, Millions Open to Embracing God’s Existence. The latest surveys suggests so you get a flavor for where we’re going today. George, welcome back to the program.
George Barna:
It was great to be with you and I’m looking forward to the discussion today.
Sam Rohrer:
We are too, and George, since our last time together, I want you to do something here. Actually reports two and three, actually three and four have come out since we were together. But the findings of report four, the one we’re going to focus on today, which people can find on your website, and I’ll be giving that link here multiple times. The most recent will be our focus and according to your analysis, the application of report four deals with the finding that there are in fact a certain number of people. In fact, you say millions who seem to indicate a willingness to be open to embracing the existence of God. I was actually your words and in the balance of the program, we want to find out from you what that means and if it is that significant, since you didn’t say close to embracing Jesus Christ as personal savior, you went the existence of God. That’s a difference because even the devil himself knows that God exists, but it remains in rebellion to God. So we’re anxious to walk through this report with you today and make application to it. So here’s my first question. Can you briefly give an overview of the 2025 reports to date from January to now, and the individual emphasis, even if you just highlight the title of each of them and their connection to the findings of this report for which I believe is built off of what we’ve already covered,
George Barna:
And actually I’ll take a step back even from that one step just to say that when we do the American Worldview Inventory, we do it at the beginning of every calendar year, big national sample, and we do them on a three year cycle in terms of the content that we’re looking at in the surveys. So the first year of each three year cycle, we look at the incidents of worldview, what worldview dominates in people’s lives and what are the numbers related to that. The second and third years, each of those years, we take a deeper dive into some of the things that relate to what we find in that first year. Why do we do it on a three year cycle? Because we know that cultures tend to change significantly every three to five years. So we want to be on the front edge of that change cycle.
This year’s exploration, it’s the third year of our second cycle since we started doing the American World inventory, we’ve actually taken on four topics in this year’s research to dive into looking at beliefs about God, beliefs and behavior about God, beliefs and behavior related to truth, beliefs and behavior related to sin and beliefs and behavior related to salvation. And so these first four reports that we’ve put out all relate back to those beliefs and behaviors related to God. So the first one looked at some of the incidents figures. Again, we typically start with that type of measurement. How many people believe in the existence of a supreme being, a God, a deity, a higher power, whatever you want to call it. We gave them all that terminology. We asked them, do they believe in any such entities? If so, how many, which ones, and do they worship those?
Do they believe in those kinds of issues? Second report, we looked at the role of God, that deity, that they believe in their life. And so we looked at the importance of that deity, the perceived involvement of that deity, that deity influence, and what that particular God or divine presence provides for their life. We look specifically at the God of the Bible in that particular element. Then the third report looked at the concept, the reality of the Trinity, that is God being three persons in one and whether or not people believe in the notion of the Trinity, which of the persons in the Trinity, if any, they believe in the incidents of all that. So that was the third one. Then this current report, we’re looking at people’s transition or potential transition from disbelief in any kind of God to belief in the God of the Bible specifically how many people have rejected him, why did they reject him? When did that happen? Are they open to the possibility of believing that the God of the Bible exists? And so that’s basically the flow of those reports. The next report that you’ll get, I think it’s next week maybe will start the truth series where we start investigating what’s happening with people’s perceptions of and behaviors related to the idea that there is some type of absolute moral truth that exists.
Sam Rohrer:
Alright, George, that’s excellent. It takes us right up to the break here When we come back, ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to proceed into looking at this aspect of one of the things in this report deals with who it is that admits about God’s existence. We’re talk about who these people are, and Isaac’s going to ask George when we come back the question of what are probably the highlight major issues that he has tracked over the last couple of years changes wise, positive and negative. Well, if you’re just joining us today, thanks for being on board with us. If you are just coming on with us, you are in the midst of Isaac and I as on leading the program today and Dr. George Barna, who’s with us once a month on our culture and values and biblical worldview focus as we are looking into the most recent report, report number four, which you can find@culturalresearchcenter.com and pick up that report now, Isaac, before we go into this further report, I know you had a question we just didn’t have time for in the other segment. How about you presenting that now?
Isaac Crockett:
Okay, thanks. Yeah, I found it interesting when you said the cultural changes that can happen in three to five years. George, you’ve been doing cultural studies for many decades, at least 30 years, that you’ve been studying some similar kind of tier thing here about our worldview, our religious worldview, and I’m just curious what you saw the good as the old Western title, the good, the bad, and the ugly. What are maybe some of the highlights and some of the maybe worst things, the ups and downs that you’ve seen in many decades of watching this?
George Barna:
Wow, I guess certainly one thing that I would say we’ve seen is the consistent deterioration of biblical Christianity in America over the last 40 some years that I’ve been doing this. When I started out, there were relatively few questions about the fact that most people were Christians, they thought of themselves as Christians, Christian churches dominated, there were a lot of Christian activities, Christian books, Christian music, Christian television was all big in the media world. That has radically changed, obviously over the last four plus decades. So that’s one change. The second one though, which is probably more positive, is that I’ve seen constant opportunities for us to recover the ground that we’ve lost over time. And I think that’s because I think it was Pascal who may have said there’s a God shaped hole in the heart of every human being. And what I believe is happening in America is that as we turn away from God and put more emphasis on ourselves and we reject his principles and we try to follow our own ways of thinking, ultimately we find out it’s not working.
We feel empty, we feel lonely, we feel disconnected. And so we have this yearning for the presence of God. And I’ve been so impressed over the last four plus decades as we keep measuring all these different elements and angles of spirituality and religiosity in America that people have constant opportunities and often they’re looking for those opportunities to reconnect. I’d say a third thing I’ve found is that there are constant theological distractions. Things that churches and ministries and individual Christians get all caught up in, which pretty much gets us off center, gets us off the main path to knowing what’s important and doing what’s right in God’s eyes. And so there’s this constant need for us to return to basics and to constantly reinforce the fundamental truths of biblical Christianity. And maybe just a final thing that comes to mind is that I am always impressed by the fact that you know what? We wake up every day in the middle of a spiritual war. And so these challenges, the push pull of faith and religiosity and spirituality that we experience is constant. And that’s because we’re fighting an enemy who never sleeps, but we’re also supported and loved and guided by a God who never sleeps and a God who’s never wrong and a God who will never lose. So there’s always that hope, that reason for hope that lies within us that we can turn to. So those are just a few things that come to mind.
Sam Rohrer:
And George, those were really excellent ladies and gentlemen. You didn’t write them down. I had a hard time writing them down myself. But you can go back and again, pick this up. When you pick up this program, you can pick up the transcript, it’ll be there and all of that. So George, let’s move now into one aspect of this latest report. According to this report number four, you make this comment which seems to offer significant hope and that’s part of the reason for the title Significant Hope. But why you say this, quote, millions who doubt or deny the God of the Bible are open to believing if engaged with credible personal witness. Now, within that we’re going to try and break out all of those because all of your words I think are important, two critical questions. Let me ask the first one here, and that is this just exactly who is the person that makes up the potential millions who doubt or deny the God of the Bible? Who are those people?
George Barna:
Well, they’re individuals from all walks of life. Sam, I am a sociologist and I’m a researcher, a research sociologist. So I’m always gathering information and what I tend to report are averages. So I can tell you what the typical profile of a person who’s open to reconsidering biblical claims about God, what they’re like. And so for instance, I would tell you that well, a majority of them don’t think of themselves as Christian. So right away there’s got to be some connectors, some bridges that are built with those people to get them to consider, for instance, the Bible as a credible document, making credible claims about real things. But at the same time that I say that, I would say however, four out of the people who say they don’t believe in the God of the Bible consider themselves to be Christian. So clearly there are just some disconnecting points.
There’s not a total disconnection, but we can reach many of those people. In fact, what the research shows us is that one out of every seven people who say that they don’t believe in the existence and influence of the God of the Bible, nevertheless qualify as born again Christians. So in other words, they believe in the existence and the influence, the role in their life of Jesus Christ. They say that when they die, they believe they’re going to go to heaven, but only because they’ve confessed their sins, they’ve acknowledged their sins, they’ve confessed them to Christ, they’re relying upon him to save them. So there are a lot of idiosyncrasies in terms of the beliefs of people. That’s why in prior conversations that you and I and Isaac have had, I’ve said it’s almost as if when we study worldview, we’ve got a nation of about 260 million adults, and it’s as if there are 260 million different worldviews out there because most Americans are synchronistic.
They’re putting together all kinds of different philosophies of life into a personal one. And some of these people call themselves Christian, believe in God, some don’t. Some who call themselves Christian are relying on Christ for their salvation, some aren’t. So it’s kind of odd to put it all together. I will say also when you ask who are these people, most of them tend to be younger, younger than 50. And we also know that many of them are people who acknowledge and admit the struggles that they’re having in life. One out of eight of them are recovering addicts. Four out of 10 of them are people who say they frequently struggle with anxiety, depression, fearful thoughts, all of these kinds of things. So those are the kinds of people who deny the existence of or doubt the existence of the God of the Bible. But another way of saying is for the most part, they’re like all of us.
Isaac Crockett:
As you talk about that in the syncretism that comes in, it makes me wonder if this is what’s making them more, as you said, open to believing. And I’m wondering, what did you find by open? How open are they? Are they just willing to listen, they want to engage, talk about it and talk about becoming believers or what does that mean from what you were studying?
George Barna:
Yeah, I mean, what we’re seeing is it’s not that they’re saying, yeah, I’m on this full-blown spiritual quest to become a follower of Jesus Christ and a full-fledged son of God because I know he created me and I want the Holy Spirit to guide every step of my life. That’s not where they’re at. It’s much more basic for most Americans. Even most Americans who believe in God still wrestle with a lot of the basic fundamental building blocks of a Christian faith. So what we found is that these are literally tens of millions of people who say that they are open to a conversation about these things. They want to know more, but it’s got to be under the right conditions. And so it depends in many cases on the kind of relationships that they have with people who believe differently than them, and whether or not they’re aware of those differences of belief, but they’ve got a deep enough relationship with that person to have those kind of conversations and to trust the individual. So we’ve got to always keep in mind, as I know you do as a Pastor Isaac, that faith is a journey, but that journey is built on a foundation. And what we’re saying here is that belief in and trust in the God of the Bible is one of those foundations, one of those cornerstones of biblical Christian faith. It’s a starting point. And so for many people, we’ve got to help them master, if you will, that starting point.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, George, that is excellent. And so open to dialogue, not necessarily that they are on a quest to fall at the feet of Jesus Christ, but they may under the right circumstances. And as you’re talking about perhaps those with whom they trust, is that basically what you’re saying?
George Barna:
Yeah, it’s critical. And so there’s a tendency that we’ve discovered in the research where millions of Christians think, okay, if I can identify somebody who doesn’t believe in God, who doesn’t have a relationship with Christ, et cetera, what I want to do is take them to a church and let the institution do the job of building that bridge. Yet what we’re finding is that it’s not really about a local church. A local church can play a great role in that, but more often than that, it’s going to be an individual relationship between a follower of God, a believer in Christ, and that individual who’s still searching that relationship is absolutely
Sam Rohrer:
Great. And ladies and gentlemen, that’s where you and I personally come in. We come back, we talk about what are these right conditions, build out that theme. George, before we go into you identifying the right conditions we referenced in the last segment, I want to ask you another question. You mentioned in giving the profile of these people who may willing to consider that God exists, you mentioned some factors that I’ve wrote down like for instance, many were lonely, some were addicts or former addicts or whatever. Now here’s my question. Are there factors and conditions which have made this group of people who it would appear were once deniers of God’s existence and unwilling to consider that God is to now be at a point where they are? Are those things that you gave that are perhaps part of those factors?
George Barna:
Yeah, I mean, what we discovered is that when we asked them, well, what caused you to reject the existence of God or to doubt the existence of God? And what we discovered is that there are really three critical things that led to that. For most people, it was personal experiences that they had that they couldn’t explain, that they couldn’t fit into some kind of a framework for how they had been thinking about God or secondly, that as they were considering their life and reflecting on who they were, where they were going, what they were experiencing, it just didn’t make sense to them that there is a God that exists, that the God of the Bible as had been explained to them was a true God, that he had all the qualities that had been ascribed to him and so forth. And thirdly, that there were world conditions that caused them to just abandon the idea of God or supreme power or some kind of higher power that they had in mind.
And so what we also discovered that I think is really important, Sam, is that two thirds of the people who now reject God formerly believed in God, and that when they rejected him, they did. So before they reached their twenties, their age 22 actually was the cutoff we had. And so between the ages of let’s say two and 21, they went through this transition where they had come probably from non-belief in God to believing God of the Bible, and then they went back to rejecting him. And so it’s an interesting trajectory where people are going back and forth trying to figure this out, but we know a person’s worldview is developed by the age of 13. So that’s why it’s so important to understand that so much of these transitions and so many of these conversations need to take place with young people. We can’t just go to work and start looking for older people, people our age or older maybe, and say, yeah, I think I’m going to engage them in conversation about God. It’s really the younger people who wrestle with this, and they get to a place where suddenly when they reach their twenties, they get really busy with the other stuff of life they’d never experienced jobs, marriage, children, community responsibilities, home ownership, all of those things and more suddenly start taking up their time. And so the reflections that they had when they were younger, they no longer have or at least make the time for. So that’s an important thing to keep in mind as well.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay. It certainly is, and it makes me wonder with young people, as we’ve talked about before, if they ever really had a developed view of God or just entertained the notion of God before they rejected. So maybe we can get into that a little bit, but you did say on the website Arizona christian.edu, there are a couple of sites, ladies and gentlemen, you can go to, but if you go there, you will find these report titles laid out, this 2 20 25 American Worldview Inventory Report four we’re talking about today. But George in there you have a title, millions admit, they could be persuaded that God exists slightly changed in the way you wrote it, but then you said this under right conditions, and that’s what I want to go to here next. And then Isaac’s got a follow up to that. But here’s the question, what does the data say that implies that God denying those were talked about here could be persuaded and interesting that you use that word since persuaded to me itself almost requires some definition?
George Barna:
Well, what we’re finding is that there are a lot of the people who right now say they don’t believe that there’s any supernatural power, any higher power, any divine being, any God or deity or divinity. And again, in the survey we gave them all those terms. We wanted to cover the waterfront. So through the qualitative research, we identified how do they think about such entities? And then we reflected that language in the survey. What we found is that a third of those people who don’t believe in any of that say that they’re completely open to changing their mind about that today. No, they reject the existence of such a deity, but they’re completely open to changing their mind. And then there’s another third of them, 38% who said, well, under the right circumstances, yeah, they might be open. And so that’s what this all comes down to.
Now, what are the right circumstances? Once again, it’s kind of like asking, well, who are these people? What’s their profile? It’s a wide range of individuals. It’s not a uniform profile. And so for some of these people, it’s watching people who believe in the God of the Bible and seeing that their lives are characterized by things like inner peace, a sense of joy about life fulfillment with their life. And that would be something that that individual is lacking or wants more of. And so they wonder, huh, I wonder how that person got there. And so they’d be open to having the conversation. And when those of us who have that experience and exude that to others, then have the opportunity to explain, well, frankly, it’s because of my faith. I was like you for a while, and this is my story. I didn’t believe in the God of the Bible.
I didn’t believe Jesus was the way, the truth and the life, but it took me some time to get there. And now that I’m there, it couldn’t be more clear and more real to me. And then you get into those kind of conversations for other people. It’s not looking at folks like you and me and Isaac perhaps and saying, gee, I want what they have. It might be that simply going through a time of pain or crisis and they want to alleviate that pain. They want to distance themselves from that crisis. They want to overcome that crisis. For other people, it might be where they’re experiencing failure or disappointment in their life and they’re wondering, what else is there to this life that makes sense that’s going to make it worthwhile, that’s going to give value to it? And so those are the kinds of things then that we as believers who experience, we are absolutely certain of the existence and the power and the knowledge and the holiness of the God of the Bible.
There’s no doubt in our minds we have these openings. As I was talking before, there are all these kind of opportunities that keep emerging. Well, how do they emerge? We can’t sit back and watch news stories saying, oh, when is the big bang of faith going to happen? No, it’s one life at a time. That’s how a faith movement evolves. That’s how a faith revolution happens, one life at a time. And so you and I and Isaac and every individual that’s listening today, if we know and love and serve God, we then have these opportunities that he puts in our pathway. Make no mistake about it. He opens those doors for us to open doors for those individuals. And that’s how the change happens. It happens on God’s schedule. It happens according to his plan. We can’t force ourselves into somebody’s life with these things, but we have to always have our eyes and ears open looking for those opportunities. And his first Peter 3 15 16 tells us we’ve always got to be ready to give a reason for the hope that lies within us, for those things that we’ve experienced and that we know to be true, and that we read in the scriptures and believe wholeheartedly. We have to be looking for the opportunities to share that with others.
Isaac Crockett:
George, I love that emphasis, and it reminds me so much of Paul at Mars Hill and the syncretism and the doubt and the trying to base things off of personal experiences. But when somebody shows up and says, thus says the Lord, this is the truth, and they seem to live it out. It’s just amazing how it’s almost like a magnet for people. Just curious if you found anything more in your studies looking at these right conditions, I might be persuaded under the right conditions, any indications of what we should be looking for as a nation on that?
George Barna:
Well, let me say a couple of things related to that. One that comes to mind is that there are two different levels that we’re talking about here. One is the simple belief in the existence of the God of the Bible and that he can influence and does influence lives. So that’s one level. But the second level to it is not only believing that God exists, but a willingness to actually connect with that God, to believe that he exists and that he wants to relate to me. He wants that back and forth that you have in a relationship. You can ask questions, you can get answers. You can lean on the other for strength. That’s all part of this. That’s this whole element of worship. Are you willing to worship that? God, that’s a big step. So I mean, that’s kind of what we’re moving toward, and maybe it’s a helpful framework for us to think about.
There’s a progression in the nature of our belief in God. Something else that I would probably add here is that when we talk about the right conditions, one of the right conditions is that that non-believer, that doubter, that rejecter of God has a relationship with someone who they trust and that person has that relationship with God. That’s one of the precedents to being able to see this process move forward as we’d want it to. Somebody I might call a faith coach who could walk them through, here’s what we can talk about to get to a place where you understand what I believe, why I believe it, what difference it makes, and whether or not you want to go there.
Sam Rohrer:
And ladies and gentlemen, hopefully that’s all of us that we have to know the Lord before we can actually lead somebody personally to him. We’ll be back with some concluding thoughts. Well, George, as we move into this last segment, we’re going to change to a different topic. But I just wanted to comment again on what you were saying in the last segment in Isaac, your commentary, because the right conditions, and George, you made it clear, and I think it’s very practical. We as true believers must be looking for the opportunity to share the gospel. That is our job. We must also be living holy lives so that we have a relationship with the Lord that’s worth looking like something that somebody would want. And then in the midst of that, the Holy Spirit comes and delivers truth. And as you said, George, we can’t force anybody to the point of acceptance of the Lord personally. And so I think there was an awful lot that we could expand and build a whole bunch more about it. But before we go into this new tool that you’ve come out with worldview assessment, George, any concluding thoughts to what we just talked about there? Because I think that’s the real application of the folks that what we’re talking about today.
George Barna:
Well, I agree with you, Sam. I mean, as I think about what you just said, the thing that comes back to me, and I know I probably sound like a bit of a broken record, but it really does come back to just a few key things. Number one, people change on the basis of the relationships that they have with people that they trust. And it takes time and it takes a real investment of a lot of personal resources to build that kind of relationship. So it’s not something that you can always do on the fly. Occasionally that happens, but that’s the aberration. So we have to recognize that we’re in this for the long-term. God loves people. He calls us to love people the way that we love people reflects how we love him. So it’s important that we build that trust, put the time in, but why? So that we can have those kind of conversations.
And that’s why we read the Bible every morning. That’s why we pray and we listen for the Holy Spirit to guide us and open our minds to things so that we have things that’s not only knowledge for us and our lives, but things that we can share with others. And when we have those conversations, recognizing it’s not about us lording it over other people trying to prove to them that we know more than they do, we know the right things. They don’t we’re going to be graded better on the test. No, it’s that we want to have these conversations where we’re asking them to draw their own conclusions. They have to own those conclusions. It can’t be our conclusions that they simply parrot. That’s one of the problems that we’ve gotten so many churches where we get kids to parrot back stuff, but they don’t understand it.
They don’t own it, they don’t believe it, and ultimately they don’t run the rest of their life with it. And that’s why we have so many young people leaving the faith and not coming back. So we’ve got to have these kind of conversations where we’re asking them questions. We’re not threatened by their questions to us. We’re not threatened by the fact that they don’t immediately accept what we talk to them about. But when we do talk to them, how do we want to do it? We want to do it as effectively as possible, which means, yeah, tell some stories. Stories from the Bible, stories from your own life stories from news articles that you read or news clips that you see in social media. All of that’s fair game for bringing up these kind of issues. But ultimately bringing those things back to biblical principles because what we want to lead them with is truth, and the source of truth is the Bible because it’s God’s words and God is truth.
I mean, it says that in one John four. So we want to do that. But then at the same time, even if we have these conversations and they’re great conversations, what happens next? Those people then watch us because they want to say, well, wait a minute. What does that look like? Or How do I know that they’re not just feeding me a bill of goods that they learned in a class somewhere because we do what we believe. So if they see us living out what we’ve talked to them about, then the conclusion they will draw. They must really believe it. Okay, because I trust them. I’m going to trust that it’s important to them, and therefore I’m going to take their words seriously and reflect on that. And so that’s what being a faith coach, a disciple maker is all about. And the more that we can own that process and participate in it with whoever God puts in our path for that, the better off the world is going to be.
Sam Rohrer:
George, that makes me think of one thing, and we’ll have just a short time to talk about the assessment, but in my adult and life group that I lead, we as a group went around and shared each person shared their journey, their testimony, and it was all for all a journey. Even though like folks like me who was saved when I was seven years old, to others there that were saved when they trusted the Lord when they were in their twenties, everyone could account that point where seed was planted, it was watered, it came to fruition, and fruit upon salvation, and then so much then went beyond that and the discipleship mode, it was a journey. It wasn’t a momentary encounter and nothing went before and nothing came after. And to ladies and John, I just say that to encourage you as you’re working with friends and family members, it is a journey. You can’t force anybody to come to the point of decision with Christ or to live for him if they have trusted him. But you may be able to plant a seed. You may be able to water and then pray that the Holy Spirit then brings the increase. George, just quickly here again, we’ll have to talk more about it, but you and Arizona Christian University have come up with a new worldview assessment tool. Individuals groups alike can access this online. worldview.com. Ladies and gentlemen, acu Arizona Christian University a worldview.com. George, tell us about this.
George Barna:
Well, it’s essentially a reflection of the American worldview inventory that we do where we evaluate the incidents of different worldviews across America. So it’s a very similar tool that tells people a number of different things. We provide almost an instant report. After you go through these questions, it takes about 15 minutes to do it. You get a private personal report. But what we talk about there is, number one, what is your dominant worldview? Secondly, looking at five different categories that help develop what becomes your worldview. We look at how did you fare in those categories. Categories like Bible, truth and Morals, a series of questions related to that. Another category, sin, salvation in your relationship with God. Another one, God, creation and history. Another one, lifestyle, behavior and relationships. Another one of faith practices, all of those things. So we give you scores related to those particular categories.
Then there’s another part of the report that looks at how you fare in relation to the seven cornerstones of a biblical worldview, and it describes what those are, as well as how you did in that. So it’s a personal report that gives you a comparison to national norms. How do you stack up against the rest of the country? It describes your results in all of those different areas that I alluded to. And then it gives you links to different resources, articles, some of which you can get right in the report, others of which are on my website, George barna.com, or cultural research center.com, or some other websites as well, and books that will help. All of this you can do personally just for yourself. You can do it as part of a group. We’ve got schools that are doing this now with their students because we have a version for fourth grade, eighth grade, and 12th graders, and so churches are using it. Schools and churches are using it with their employees for hiring our school, as well as a few other universities are using it with faculty to determine how do we need to shore up the worldview of the people who are teaching our students. So there’s a lot of different uses, but hopefully people will find it valuable.
Sam Rohrer:
Thank you so much, George and Isaac. I was going to ask you to pray, but we’re out of time. Thanks for being with us today. All of you listening here today, and that assessment tool, worldview assessment tool, I encourage you to do it ACU worldview.com, ACU worldview.com. I haven’t done it yet, but Isaac has, and I hope that a lot of you will take advantage of that. Dr. George Barna, thank you so much for being with us today. Just wonderful content today, ladies and gentlemen. Hopefully it has benefited you to go out and stand in the gap.
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