Overflow Daily...ish: The Significance of the Offering
When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock. Leviticus 1:2 If I were to ask you to guess what percentage of Americans have read the Bible at least one time in their life, how much would you say? 40%? 30%? Well, a 2017 survey conducted by Lifeway Research asked that very question, in addition to several other questions, and found that only 20% of Americans surveyed had read it at least one time. This number is even more startling considering that approximately 47% of Americans consider themselves to be Christian. If you include other world religions and cults who use the Bible as one of their main texts, such as Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons, that number jumps up to 70.6%. It is amazing that in a nation where nearly 3/4th of the people claims to revere the Word of God, barely 1 out of 5 have read the Bible a single time. I do not mention those statistics to discour...