Lee Strobel

I think it's in many ways a rise of Islam and a squelching of Christian beliefs, people expressing them.

Well, look at this reporter or this NBA player you mentioned who lost his opportunity because he was outspoken saying something that an average Christian would probably agree with.

that there's an unrighteousness to certain behaviors that culture says are fine and we ought to celebrate and be prideful of.

So there's a squelching of Christian values

belief in that way that I think makes it uncomfortable for some people to say, oh, yeah, I'm a Christian, because now all of a sudden you go, oh, well, you don't believe in choice?

You don't believe in abortion as being an opportunity?

It's a women's health issue?

You want to come out against that?

Really?

And you're likely to get challenged today, where you wouldn't be challenged back in the 60s.

You'd be celebrated.

I mean, everybody claimed to be a Christian, regardless of how many truly were.

Well, certainly in the earliest days of Christianity, before a person was baptized, they would go through a catechism with them in a sense.

They would educate them.

What is the faith about?

Cause of discipleship.

Yeah, cause of discipleship, things like that.

And I think where the American church has fallen down is in the area of discipleship, in the area of people understanding what it really entails to be a follower of Jesus.

But having said that,

I certainly don't want to add to what the Bible says in terms of what it takes to become a true follower of Jesus.