Introduction

How did we get here? This is the question in the mind of many believers who are witnessing the faith crisis and the crumbling of America’s spiritual foundation. According to a recent and sobering 2025 report by the Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University, faith allegiance is rapidly declining and moral truth is under attack. Please read the full report here.

Christians are no longer just swimming against the current, many are being swept away the same. As the world redefines the truth and blurs the lines of righteousness and moral standards, the Church must wake up, repent, and resist the tides of apostasy.

Key Findings from the CRC Report

1. Drastic Drop in Biblical Worldview

Only a small percentage of U.S. adults still hold a consistent biblical worldview. In fact, the number of people connected to the Christian faith continues to decline, according to the report.

In 2020, 72% of adults described Christianity as their faith. In 2025, that number dropped to 66%. That reflects a decline of about 8%, or a loss of some 15 million adults during the half-decade.

Meanwhile, a number of non-Christian faiths in the United States have experienced significant growth in numbers of adherents. Buddhism has grown by 56%; Judaism by 21%; and Islam by 12%. All non-Christian faiths combined have increased by 39% since the start of the decade.

The “no-faith” segment of America also continues to grow. In 2020, about 20% of adults said they were not associated with any religious faith group or belief system. That proportion has inched up to nearly 23% today, constituting some 60 million adults.

Christianity is slowly shrinking at the expense of competing faith systems.

Source: American Worldview Inventory 2025

2. Drastic Rise in Moral Relativism

Most Americans believe that truth is subjective and based on personal feelings rather than the absolute Scripture. The number of people who hold to absolute truth is declining. Many people would often speak of “my truth,” “your truth,” etc. But the truth is that if there is no absolute truth, then nothing is true.

The most popular source of truth input remains personal feelings. Approximately three-quarters of all Americans (74%) at least occasionally rely upon their emotions to discern moral truth. Feelings emerged as the sole truth source trusted by a majority of adults.

About two out of every five adults rely on each of four other truth sources. Those included the Bible (44%), public policies and laws (41%), scientific and mathematical claims (40%), and social norms, majority beliefs, and cultural traditions (39%).

About one out of five adults sometimes turn to philosophical or religious views other than the Bible (24%), or personal experience (21%), or to input from family, friends, and peers (18%).

Source: American Worldview Inventory 2025

3. Syncretism is Spreading

Syncretism is form of ecumenism in which the people attempt to mix the Christian beliefs with elements from other worldviews such as secularism, Marxism, Eastern mysticism, New Age spirituality, and so on.

4. Youth and Young Adults Are Most Affected

Gen Z and Millennials are least likely to believe in moral absolutes or biblical authority.

One-quarter (26%) of Baby Boomers (currently in their 60s or 70s) appear to consistently turn to the Bible first and foremost to discern truth.

The incidence of the “scripture first and foremost” mindset about truth was significantly lower for succeeding generations: just 20% among Gen X (people now in their early 40s through late 50s), 12% among Millennials (the group from ages 22 through 40), and only 9% for the youngest adult generation (Gen Z, the adult portion of which is 18 to 21 years old).

Source: American Worldview Inventory 2025

5. Faith is No Longer Central

Many identify as “Christian” in name only, while their actual beliefs and behaviors reject biblical principles. Often, it is Christianity by association, those who think or claim they are Christians because their parents are, or because they are Americans.

Lessons to Be Learned

1. Cultural Christianity is Hollow: Identifying as a Christian doesn’t equate to actually being one or living a biblical life. The difference between true discipleship and nominal faith is now widening.

2. Truth is Being Redefined: The erosion of absolute truth is not just a philosophical issue; it is spiritual one. It weakens the witness of the people and distorts the Gospel. Let’s not forget what the Bible says in:

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

3. The Church Must Discern: Not all spiritual-sounding ideas are actually biblically. Christians need to develop the spiritual discernment in this age of deception and confusion.

What Christians Must Do

1. Return to the Word of God

The Bible is the only source of truth. But merely owning a Bible does not give you the truth. You must study it. For many years, the Church at large has abandoned and replaced Bible study with programs. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place. And to address it, we must make the scripture as our final authority, not feelings, culture, or trends.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2. Teach Sound Doctrine

Churches need to prioritize discipleship, apologetics, and biblical literacy over mere ceremonial activities that are keeping people busy without experiencing any spiritual growth.

2 Timothy 4:1-5 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

3. Raise Counter-Cultural Families

Parents must intentionally disciple their children and guard them against spiritual confusion. It is important for Christian parents to know that it is their responsibility to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of God. This responsibility cannot and must not be delegated to the Church, the education system, or any other entity.

Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons.

Ephesians 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

4. Stand Firm Publicly

We must not shrink from proclaiming biblical truth, even when it’s unpopular. But this will be hard until we have accepted the Bible as the absolute truth and authority.

2 Timothy 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

5. Repent and Pray for Revival

Our hope is not in politics or popular platforms, it is in the power of the Holy Spirit to transform our hearts. We must be fervent in prayers for our family, children, community, and our nation at large.

Daniel 9:16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

Conclusion

We are living in what the Bible describes in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 as “a falling away.” The spirit of apostasy is not just near, it is here. In 1 John 2:18, the Bible says “even now are there many antichrists.” But God has always preserved a remnant.

You and I must decide whether to bow to the pressure, or stand firm in the truth. We cannot afford to delay any longer. Now it the time to rise, repent, and return to the foundation of our faith, Jesus Christ, the Truth Himself. “…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” I hope you will too.

Thank you for reading!