'Ten Commandments' survey of Americans: Huh?

Maybe that's because there are only 8 ingredients to memorize over 10 whole commandments.

 

Very quiet thread.

Just you and I Sue

If I promise not to break any commandments, can we blow this joint and get a......

here's a hint


Two all beef patties
special sauce
lettuce
cheese
pickles
onions
on a Sesame Seed Bun!!!!!!!!!!

 

And if that's the case with justing knowing what the commandments are, how many (or how few? ) know what they mean? I've found that a lot of people, even some Christians, think that "taking God's name in vain" only happens when we use the word "God" as a swear-word, or that a person can only be guilty of breaking the commandment about murder if they actually kill someone.

 

I memorized the ten commands in order ---- years ago --- with the help of the now retired quartet

The Statler Brothers

On their Old Testament/New Testament labels

Thou shalt have no gods before Me is my first command
Thou shalt not make any graven image by thy hand
Thou shalt not take My name in vain or thou shall guilty be
Remember now to keep the Sabbath day alone to Me
Honor thy father and thy mother
and thou shall not kill
Thou shalt not commit adultery
and thou shall not steal
Love thy neighbor as thyself and show thy neighbor peace
Covet not thy neighbor's house nor anything thats his

I'm preaching a current series at church on The Ten Commands

We're on command #2 No Graven Image

No man has seen God at any time sooooooo when we make an image of Him and bow to that image ---- we're telling God ---- "God!!!! We know what you look like!!!! You look like this!!!!!" Thus we call God a liar when we make an image of Him because God says noone knows what He looks like and here we are saying ---- this is what God looks like!!!

 

What is the big surprise! We know what is important to us, what we study, spend time reading and living. How many of us have a family alter time and Bible study time? Our children learn in public schools ( I know many of us don't send our children to public schools) the Bible isn't correct, so why should they spend time reading it? We spend so much time trying to have non christian to live by Christian values rather than getting the Gospel out to the lost. Woe is me!!!

 

I'm not sure why the brethren and sistren think the root of this "crisis" is. Seems clear to me that the reason that the 30 and over crowd can almost instantly recall both the ingredients of a Big Mac and the pre-amble to the US constitution (remember the little School House Rock ditty?) and not the 10 Commandments in order is due to nothing else but repetition.

For the same reason, just about every person who has been a believer for more than 2-3 years can instantly recall John 3:16 and Matthew 28:18-20

How many times have you pastors taught on OT law and how it applies to us today? How do you use the simple tool of repetition in your teaching?

How many of us can recall the 10 Commandments in order? One might as well ask how many of us can recall Romans 8 word for word, or how many of us can recall the generations given in Matthew 1, or how many of us can recall the order of creation, or how many of us can recite the Sermon on the Mount.

We live in a church generation that honors the use of the catechism of old...but without actually using it, in either the family or church context, to train our young.

My guess is that the folks who read this thread and are "shocked" will be the same ones expressing shock in a year or two when the next survey of this type comes out...without affecting any real change in the meantime.