This study suggests that biblical literacy is a significant challenge for today s church. The reality is that biblical illiteracy probably translates into spiritual blindness. Churches must seek ways to address both of these issues. The focus should be both on helping existing Christians who are connected with their church to address the issues of biblical illiteracy and spiritual blindness, and on helping pre-Christians who are seeking spirituality to address these issues. Anglo American churches need to boldly step out and realize that they may have a lot to learn from African Americans and ethnic minorities about how to grow spiritually in a world of significant spiritual chaos.
Churches face two age group challenges.
First, is to understand the first fully postmodern generation, the Millennials. Implications for Church Champions 1. Church champions should facilitate learning experiences for church leaders to help them be knowledgeable of trends regarding the growing desire for a spiritual growth journey. Assistance should be provided to churches in developing and implementing appropriate strategies and tactics to help people to experience a spiritual growth journey. Many churches are stuck on providing programs rather than experiences.