Pastor Dan Southern 7/4/04

Centreville Community Church

Title: A Liberty That Lasts

Text: Leviticus 25:10

Ephesians 4:4 1 Corinthians 2:2

Colossians 1:27 Acts 4:12

Leviticus 25:10 Psalm 9:17

Proverbs 14:34

l. WHAT IS LOST IN AMERICA

A. Its foundation

“It is impossible to rightly govern without God and the Bible”

….. George Washington

“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed”

…… Patrick Henry

B. Its fertile soil

C. The freedoms we enjoy

D. The favor of God

ll. WHAT IS LACKING IN AMERICA

A moral compass

A moral conscience

Proverbs 14:34 Leviticus 26:14 – 33

Deuteronomy 28:37 Matthew 25:31 – 46

Matthew 25:32 1 Timothy 2:1, 2

lll. THE LOST IN AMERICA

Starling Statistics

A. “United States churches are growing, but not enough to keep pace with the population”

….. Eileen Linder, editor, Yearbook of American and

Canadian churches, 2000, Abingdon Press

B. “Of the nearly 280 million people in the United States today, only 40 percent of adults said they went to church last Sunday”

….. U.S. Census Bureau, www. Census.gov

C. “One in three United States adults (33%) is unchurched which translates to 65 – 70 million people”

….. Information from the Barna Research Group, Feb. 1999,

www.barna.org

D. “Half of the churches across the United Statess did not record the conversion of one person last year”

….. Charles Arn, Journal of American Society for Church

Growth

E. Less than 5% of the total population of Native Americans have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior”

…. Dan Wooding, Awaking the Sleeping Gaint,

www.chief.org

F. “The non-religious have grown from one million in 1900 to 26 million today, and atheists have grown from 2000 in 1900 to 1.4 million today”

….Justin D. Long, “North American: Decline and Fall of World Religions-, 1900 – 2025,

www. gem-werc.org

“Despite its Christian heritage, the United States leads every other nation in the industrialized world in the percentage of single-parent families (at 23%), abortion rate (at 22.9% per 1000 women aged 15 – 54), sexually transmitted diseases, teenage birth rate, use of illegal drugs by students (44%.9) the size of prison population and child poverty (20%).

…. As quoted in Lost in America, Tom Clegg, Group

Publishing, 2001, p. 35

lV. THE LIGHT FOR AMERICA

A. It is found in its churches.

B. It is found in the lives of Christians

C. It is found in Christ.

How may I apply this message to my life?

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