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The Gap Between Bible Sales and Bible Reading

 By Shane Morris - Posted at BreakPoint: Published April 3, 2025 In his Confessions , St. Augustine tells the story of a spiritual experience that triggered his conversion. Torn between his fleshly temptations and his attraction to Christianity, the future church father sat down beneath a fig tree and wept. Then, he heard a childā€™s voice chanting ā€œTake up and read; Take up and read.ā€ Augustine took this as a sign to read the Bible and immediately opened to Romans 13 where Paul warns against drunkenness and sexual immorality, urging readers instead to put on Jesus Christ. At these words, Augustine writes, ā€œlight as it were of serenity infused into my heart, all the darkness of doubt vanished away.ā€ This has always been the case with Scripture, whose power to speak to restless hearts and to make wise the simple has not dimmed in the centuries since Augustine wrote Confessions . But today, shockingly few people are heeding the voiceā€™s advice. Bible reading in the U.S. has fallen to...

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