NRB President and CEO Troy Miller says one can trace the roots of most of our civic unrest back to biblical illiteracy. Talking on “Jenna Ellis in the Morning” on AFR, Miller says America needs bold pastors.
“If you have a pastor or a Christian communicator who's just lightly touching those issues or self-censoring from discipling people on these issues, then we get this moral ambiguity that we see in society today,” Miller says.
He says the Framers knew this and wrote it into our founding documents.
“John Adams said, ‘Look, this, our Constitution, was created for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to govern any other,” Miller states.
Ellis says Christians should be able to speak truth into the culture, but they don't know where to start.
“They don't know which way is up, and they don't know how to even think through it because they haven't been sufficiently discipled in the Scripture in order to approach this from a biblical worldview,” Ellis states.
Miller says pastors need to stop the Sunday morning Ted Talks and self-help seminars and focus on making disciples.
“Discipleship of that really goes back to the pulpits of our country not standing up. Discipleship should be one of the number one issues, one of the number one things, that churches work on across this country,” Miller says.
AFN reported previously in February that the 2025 State of Christianity In America report confirmed there is not a Jesus-awareness problem, but a discipleship one. According to the result of the survey, only 35% of Americans read the Bible regularly, but only 21% are engaged with the Bible “at a level historically associated with life transformation.” Meanwhile, 14.8% of believers say they disciple someone, but 13.8% of non-believers claim they do as well. Only 31% of Americans can say that they have been discipled by another person in the Christian faith.
