Divided Nation

This book takes us through a journey of how or why our culture has stepped away from Christ. A large number of people will still say that they believe in Jesus but their lives & values don’t reflect the values portrayed in the Bible. In fact some pastors don’t even preach against sin anymore - especially the politically charged topics. All we are left with is a greasy grace gospel. This book addresses those issues by taking us back to the beginning of the Bible. The Bible is what the foundation of ALL our beliefs should be. We need to teach our children the Bible so they have a solid foundation when facing all of the issues in our society.

In this short but powerful volume, Ken Ham urges pastors, church and ministry leaders, and parents to return to the foundational teaching of Genesis as literal history. Too often, the biblical history of Genesis 1-11 is traded for an acceptance of evolutionary philosophy. As Ken Ham illustrates, this acceptance erodes the foundation upon which the rest of the Bible stands, and is leading to not only the increased secularízation of the church at large, but also the loss of our younger generations in droves. We must be equipped - and equipping - with answers to crucial questions that can and must be answered from Scripture.

If you’re familiar with Ken Ham’s teaching, most of the information in this book will not be new to you. Even so, I found it to be a helpful overview and a solid reminder that truly nothing is neutral; every belief and action that flows from it stands on either God’s Word or man’s word.

Great read for living in the world right now. I knew the world was divided but I didn’t realize how serious the consequences of that are. We need to be looking at many of these issues as life or death because they are. Great knowledge of how we can look at these dividing issues differently to impact the next generation.

A quick, conviction filled read that will help you see where we as a nation have gone wrong and what we need to do within our own families and churches to fix it and why. I think I may gift this book to my husbands class of Expedition Rangers for next year - they have been discussing a lot of deep topics that the secular world and the Bible view differently. This will fit perfectly in and I know they will enjoy reading it.

Ken Ham tells us that parents and church leaders need to equip children for the fallen world in which we live. We have a foundation of God's word or man's word. One is either for Christ or against Him. This book will open your eyes as to what happened, why it happened and how to go about dealing with it as we should. I highly recommend this book. You will come away with a better understand of why our nation is in the state that it is currently in. You will also receive some tips/tools to help you navigate your way forward especially in regards to preparing your children for what is to come.

This is a wonderful book. It’s very relevant for today’s world we live in. It gives important answers to foundational questions. I highly recommend for everyone to read to be equipped to answer about our faith in the world of everything goes and relativism. Easy read.

A DIVIDED NATION
The book opens with this: “America is a divided nation…./The culture is becoming more secularized and anti-Christian. Church attendance has already dropped significantly. But what has happened to the Church? Why have the younger generations been leaving? Why is the Christian message no impacting the culture like it used to?” (pg 8).

The following pages answer these pressing questions beginning with the sobering fact that, “it only takes one generation to a lose a culture” (pg.9) and the truth that the “change in the [current] culture is devastating and catastrophic from a Christian perspective” (pg9).

The call is to Christian to take responsibility and take a stand, to right what we have been negligent in, to hold our leaders and ourselves accountable and to above all understand that there “is no neutrality – no neutral position” (page 13); You are either for God or against God, but “scripture makes it clear there is not neutral position” (pg. 14).

As I read this I could not help but hear Nehemiah’s call in Nehemiah 4:14 “Remember the LORD, who is great and glorious, and FIGHT for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes”. This has long been my battle cry when it comes to educating my children, when I stand firm on the Word, when I make what this world would say is a politically incorrect stand. I will stand on the firm foundation because this is a fight for the next generation.

Ken Ham lays out five areas he believes has been neglected then goes into detail about why and how they have been neglected and what the answer is. Each chapter ends with a section on what parents should and can do and what leaders should and can do. He is unapologetic in placing the blame and responsibility of this on the shoulders first of the parents of children and second on the church and its leaders. It is time to stand firm, to preach and live truth and to lay a foundation.

I am in my 40’s and Ken points out that my generation and those before me were raised in a largely “Christianized” culture, where Christian morals and views permeated all areas, including the school system. I was in the generation when they began to remove the Bible and Prayer from school. I remember my Latin teacher making the statement that we cannot study an ancient language or the history of that time and neglect the influence of Christ upon that time. He was a highly educated man who held a doctorate in Linguistics and Masters in the field of archeology and ancient history (why he was in a high school was beyond my understanding at the time, though now I know it was to lay the foundation for students in an area that was becoming highly secularized). He translated the New Testament into Latin and we spent the next four years as a class translating it back into English – imagine the impact that had! We discussed the history in light of Scripture and he did all this stating the Bible was just another text used to support the historical documents of the time. More than once he was called on to defend his use of the Bible in a classroom setting. I look back on this and am thankful he held to his faith and taught it – always pointing that every passage of the Bible was reliable and if we wanted historical or scientific evidence we never had to look to far. In fact many students stayed to pose questions and to debate topics - he was great at apologetics, with a compassion for teaching truth. This! This is what we need to get back to and is precisely what Ken Ham says – apologetics is KEY! Understanding the why to what we believe is utterly important.