Pastor’s Blog II.V

On Sunday April 25th Cornerstone Church was issued a Bible Content Quiz put together by The Canadian Bible Society here in Saskatoon. I handed them out as part of my morning messsage and walked the people through the 35 questions. Immediately afterward we collected the quizzes and our staff have been compiling the results. I will share with you the initial results in this posting but there will be more results coming as we analyze the data.
We asked two questions at the end of the quiz just to help us with the information we knew we would receive. The first question had to do with their Bible reading habits. We gave them four different categories to select from. The categories were 1. Daily Bible Reader, 2. Weekly Bible Reader, 3. Monthly Bible Reader or 4. Seldom/never Bible Reader. We had just over 300 people participate in the quiz. Of those participants 113 said they were daily Bible readers which is great news. We have one third in this survey reading each and every day. During our series on the character traits of God I have said over and over again that we won’t trust someone we don’t know. In order to know God I need to get into His Word.
On the other end of the spectrum we had 89 who said they read the Bible either seldom or never. When we add those to the ones who said they read monthly (which our staff felt fit into the seldom category) we found another third of our respondents. Roughly one third of our people are seldom or never reading the Bible.
So, we have one third reading daily and one third seldom or never reading their Bibles. For me, as a shepherd, this is not very encouraging news. I want God’s people to be regularly ingesting truth from God’s Word into their hearts and minds.
Perhaps you are wondering about our overall knowledge score on the test. We have those initial results as well. Our overall church score on the test once we had compiled the results from all age brackets was 54%.

The average scores for the different age brackets is as follows. Remember the total number of questions was 35. The over 65 averaged 22. The 45-65 averaged 20. The 20-44 averaged 19 and the under 20 averaged 16. I said to the staff, “our job is not done.” I am open to your comments and/or interpretations.