Why do Christ followers fail the “follow” part?

One of the greatest frustrations church leaders struggle with is trying to lead a congregation in following in the footsteps of Christ and getting a mediocre response in the lives of those they lead.

Why do people place membership in a church, call themselves Christian, then fail to actually follow Christ? There’s more than one answer to that question, but here’s one church leaders can directly impact: the failure of Christians to develop a biblical worldview.

The basic process of conversion itself doesn’t equip Christians with a fully developed biblical worldview. Rather, it positions them to be able to start the transformation of their broken worldview into a new worldview, one based on biblical truth. But such a worldview has to be built through an adequate process of discipleship.

However, this is a topic we rarely hear church leaders address to any degree. Yet, the development and application of a biblical worldview would radically transform the life of each Christian who actually achieves such a discipleship process. The transforming impact on the life of the individual Christian would also directly impact the church and his interaction in the world.

UPDATE: I originally wrote the above in 2011, but just recently new research has revealed that only 37 percent of pastors hold a biblical worldview (read more about that by clicking click here). That information helps us better understand that a key reason why so few Christians hold a biblical worldview is because so few pastors hold a biblical worldview.

Tragic.

Scotty