One of the first articles I wrote when I became CRU’s Executive Director in 1993 was about the importance of Bible literacy for all, but especially for CRU’s leaders. Today, as I pen one of the last articles I will write in this role, I need to make the same point: reading the Bible is crucial.
Come for Fun, Leave with Faith
Adam and Who?
Heidi Woodhouse, CRU Captain at Barker College, knows the answer. David and Goliath, Noah and the Flood, Adam and Eve, The Cross of Christ… All names and phrases which were once familiar to Aussie kids but are now drawing a blank. Biblical literacy is on the decline, driven by the declining numbers of youth at church and Sunday School and a secular society that has branded Christianity irrelevant.