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Can You Answer This One Question About Jesus? (93% Of Christians Can't And Might Not Be Saved)
If you can't explain the gospel, never finished reading the Bible, or secretly fear you're going to hell... Read this short article if you're tired of watching others truly know God while you feel like a spiritual fraud.
By Elizabeth Bennett
Former Christian Fraud
I was 52 years old when someone asked me a simple question that completely shattered my faith.
It was Thanksgiving dinner at my sister's house.
I had come over early to help feed the kids and get everything ready before the rest of the family arrived.
After dinner, my oldest niece looked at me from across the table. She's a senior in high school now, and I'd recently heard she told her parents she's an atheist.
She said, "Aunt Liz, you've always told us you're a Christian. Can you explain to me what the gospel actually is? Like, what does that even mean?"
The entire room went quiet.
Everyone turned and looked at me.
My niece wasn't trying to be rude or disrespectful.
She genuinely wanted to know.
And I've called myself a Christian my entire life.
I was baptized when I was little.
I took my kids to church every Sunday when they were growing up.
I pray before meals.
I've believed in God for 52 years.
So I opened my mouth to answer her... and nothing came out.
I stumbled over my words. "Well, it's about... you know, Jesus dying for our sins and rising again, and believing in Him..."
"But WHY did He have to die?" my niece asked. "And what does 'for our sins' actually mean?
Like, what does that really mean?"
I had no answer.
I literally could not explain the most basic concept of Christianity to my own niece who genuinely wanted to understand.
And in that moment, I realized something that terrified me.
I'd spent 52 years calling myself a Christian, but I had absolutely no idea what I actually believed.
Have you ever felt this way?
You call yourself a Christian. Maybe you were raised in church.
Maybe you prayed a prayer when you were younger.
Maybe you believe in God and try to live a good life.
But if someone asked you to explain what the gospel actually is... could you do it?
If your own children or grandchildren asked you to explain your faith... would you know what to say?
What if you've been calling yourself a Christian your whole life... but you don't actually understand what that means?
The Question 93% Of Christians Cannot Answer
That Thanks giving dinner conversation haunted me for weeks.
I couldn't stop thinking about it.
So I started doing something that probably sounds crazy.I started asking other Christians the same question my niece asked me. "Can you explain what the gospel is?"
The answers I got terrified me.
"It's about being a good person and going to heaven." That's not it.
"It's the story of Jesus." Okay, but what does that mean?
"It's believing in God." Even demons believe in God. James 2:19 says so.
"It's about love and forgiveness." That's so vague.
I asked 30 people. All of them called themselves Christians. Some went to church every Sunday. Some led Bible studies. Some posted scripture on Facebook every day.
Only 2 of them could actually explain the gospel clearly.
That's 93% who couldn't answer.
These weren't fake Christians or people who didn't care. These were real believers who prayed, who loved God, who tried to live right.
But they couldn't explain the most basic truth of what they believed.
Then I found a survey that made my stomach drop. 67% of self-identified Christians cannot accurately explain what the gospel is.
I wasn't alone in my confusion. Most of us have no idea what we're claiming to believe.
Two-thirds of us. The majority.
And here's what made my blood run cold.
I was reading my Bible one night, and I came across Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus said:
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and in Your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from Me, you evildoers!'"
I had to read that again.
These were people who called Jesus "Lord." People who did miracles in His name.
And Jesus said, "I never knew you."
That's when the fear really set in.
What if I'm one of those people? What if all these years of calling myself a Christian don't actually mean anything?
What if the 67% of us who can't explain the gospel are the same people Jesus will turn away?
What if calling yourself a Christian isn't enough?
What if you actually have to understand what you believe?
The Terrifying Statistics About People Who Call Themselves "Christian"
I couldn't sleep that night.
I kept thinking about that conversation. About my niece's question. About how I had no answer.
So I did what I always do when I can't sleep. I grabbed my phone and started searching.
What I found made everything worse.
📊 65% of Americans call themselves Christian.
But:
60% can't name 5 of the Ten Commandments.
58% can't name the four Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Most of us don't even know that.
48% don't know who delivered the Sermon on the Mount. It was Jesus.
45% think "God helps those who help themselves" is in the Bible (It's not)
And it gets worse:
Only 37% of people who call themselves Christians say they read the Bible once a week or more.
Fewer than 20% have ever read the entire Bible cover to cover.
Less than 10% could pass a basic test on Bible knowledge.
I sat there in bed at 2 in the morning, staring at these numbers, and I realized something.
I'm one of them. I'm part of those statistics.
I started thinking about all of us who call ourselves Christians. All of us who say we believe.
All of us who claim Jesus as Lord.
But how many of us actually know what we're claiming to believe?
I didn't know God's Word. I didn't understand the gospel.
I was just using a label. A label I'd had my whole life but never really understood.
Then I came across another verse. John 8:31-32. Jesus said:
"If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
If you abide in My word.
If.
Not if you call yourself a Christian. Not if you believe in God. Not if you're a good person.
If you abide in My word.
Then, and only then, are you truly His disciple.
I wasn't abiding in His Word.
I was just existing with a Christian label I'd inherited from my parents.
A label I'd never actually investigated or understood.
And I realized something that changed everything.
Maybe I wasn't actually a Christian at all.
What If You’ve Been Calling Yourself Christian But You Don’t Actually Know God?
Let me ask you something that kept me up at night.
I want you to be honest with yourself, because I had to be honest with myself.
If I died tonight and stood before God, and He asked me, "Why should I let you into My heaven?" what would I say?
Would I say, "Because I'm a good person"?
Would I say, "Because I went to church and raised my kids there"?
Would I say, "Because I believe in You"?
That's when I remembered something that terrified me. Even demons believe in God. James 2:19 says so. Believing isn't enough.
Then I found another verse. John 17:3. Jesus said:
"This is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
Not know about Him. Know Him.
And the only way to truly know Him is through His Word. Not through sermons I'd heard over the years. Not through Christian books or devotionals.
Not through vague feelings or memories from Sunday School when I was a kid.
Through His Word. Through actually understanding the Bible.
But here's the problem I faced. The problem I think a lot of us face.
I'd never actually read the Bible. Not the whole thing.
I'd tried so many times and got completely lost every single time.
Does that sound familiar to you?
Why I'd Never Actually Read The Entire Bible Even Though I'd Been a Christian for 52 Years
After that Thanks giving dinner, I decided I was going to read the Bible.
The whole thing. Cover to cover.
I was going to figure out what the gospel actually meant.
What Christianity actually taught.
What I'd been claiming to believe for 52 years.
I made it to Genesis chapter 4 and I was already confused.
All these names. These genealogies that went on forever.
Why were they there? What was I supposed to get from this?
I pushed through to Exodus. Moses, the plagues, the Red Sea.
Okay, I remembered these stories from when I was a kid.
But then I got to Exodus 25 and it was just endless descriptions of how to build a tabernacle.
Curtain measurements. Lampstand specifications. Page after page.
I remember thinking, "What does any of this have to do with my life?"
Then came Leviticus. I gave up by chapter 3.
It was just pages and pages of sacrificial laws.
Grain offerings. Blood sprinkling. Instructions about animal organs.
I quit. Again.
And that's when I realized something.
This is why I'd never read the Bible in 52 years.
Every time I tried, I got lost. Confused. Completely overwhelmed.
I didn't understand who was writing these books, why any of it mattered, or what I was supposed to get from it.
I felt stupid. Like everyone else at church just understood it naturally and I didn't.
Maybe you've felt this way too?
You've tried reading the Bible and got nowhere.
Or you've never tried because it just seems too intimidating.
Too thick. Too complicated. Too old.
You don't understand where to start.
You don't know what half the words even mean.
You don't see how any of it connects to your life today.
So you just give up. Or you never start.
And you keep calling yourself a Christian while having no idea what that actually means.
That was me. For 52 years, that was me.
The Seminary Professor Who Showed Me What I’d Been Missing
That's when I did something I never thought I'd do.
I called my old pastor. Pastor Mike. The one who baptized my kids 20 years ago.
He'd retired a few years back, but I still had his number.
When he answered, I didn't even know what to say at first.
"Pastor Mike," I finally said, "I'm 52 years old. I've called myself a Christian my entire life.
I raised my kids in church. But my niece asked me to explain the gospel at Thanksgiving and I couldn't do it.
I tried reading the Bible to figure it out, and I just get lost every time. Am I stupid? Did I miss something all these years?"
He was quiet for a moment.
Then he said something that changed everything.
"You're not stupid. And you're not alone.
You're doing what almost every Christian does. You're trying to read the Bible like it's one book written directly to you in 2024.
But it's not.
It's 66 different books, written by different authors, to different audiences, for different reasons, over 1,500 years.
You have to understand the context of each book or you'll stay confused forever."
"But how am I supposed to know all that?" I asked him.
"You need to understand a few key things about every book before you read it," he said.
"Who wrote it. Why they wrote it. Who they were writing to.
What the main message is. And what it means for you.
Once you have that framework, the Bible goes from confusing to clear."
He walked me through it using the book of Romans as an example.
Who wrote it? Paul, a Jewish leader who encountered Jesus and completely changed.
Why did he write it? To explain how everyone, Jews and non-Jews alike, are saved by grace through faith, not by being good enough or following rules.
Who was he writing to? The church in Rome.
A mix of Jewish and non-Jewish believers who were arguing about whether you had to follow Jewish law to be a real Christian.
What's the main message? You're saved by faith. Grace, not rules.
Unity in Christ despite our differences.
And how it all points to Jesus. The old way versus the new way.
Suddenly, Romans made sense to me.
It wasn't random theology I was supposed to memorize.
It was Paul answering specific questions for specific people dealing with real problems.
Then he did the same thing with Leviticus. The book I'd given up on.
Who wrote it? Moses.
Why?
To give the priests instructions on how to maintain holiness and lead the people.
Who was it for?
The Levitical priests. The religious leaders of Israel.
What's the main message?
Holiness. Sacrifice. How sin is dealt with.
And what does it mean? All those blood sacrifices were pointing forward to Jesus.
They were showing us why His sacrifice would matter.
Suddenly, Leviticus wasn't boring anymore.
It was showing me why Jesus had to die.
Why His death actually meant something.
Why we call Him the Lamb of God.
For the first time in 52 years, I wasn't just reading words on a page.
I was actually understanding what I was reading.
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"I tried reading the Bible 6 times and gave up every single time. I felt like a complete failure as a believer. This guide changed everything for me. I've now read the entire Bible and I actually understood what I was reading. I finally know what the gospel means. I can finally talk about my faith without feeling lost."
The All-In-One Bible Study Guide (All 66 Books Explained).
Over the next six months, I used what Pastor Mike taught me to study every single book of the Bible.
Genesis to Revelation.
Old Testament and New Testament.
And with each book, I got to know God in a way I never had before.
Not just facts about Him. But Him. His character. His heart. His plan for me.
I finally understood the gospel, not just as something people talked about, but as the thread connecting everything from Genesis to Revelation.
I finally understood why Jesus had to die.
I finally understood what it meant to be saved by grace instead of trying to earn it.
I finally understood what God was asking of me.
And I finally understood that for 52 years, I'd been a Christian in name only.
I'd known about God, but I hadn't actually known Him.
Now I did.
A few months later, I shared what I'd been learning with some women from my old Bible study group.
One of them looked at my notes and said, "This is amazing. I've struggled with the exact same thing for years. Have you thought about putting this together for other people?"
That's when I realized I wasn't the only one who felt lost trying to read the Bible.
So I spent the next two years creating what I wish I'd had 52 years ago.
A complete guide to all 66 books of the Bible.
Not a thick commentary that sits on your shelf.
Not a textbook full of words you can't understand.
But a simple, clear guide that gives you exactly what you need to understand each book.
✓ Who wrote it, so you understand where they're coming from.
✓ Why it was written, so you understand the purpose behind it.
Who they were writing to, so you understand the context.
✓ The main message, so you know what to look for.
✓ What it means, so you can understand the bigger picture.
And questions to help you apply it to your own life.
Every single book.
Genesis to Revelation.
Each book gets its own section in the guide.
Some books need a couple pages to really explain.
Some need a bit more.
But every book is covered completely.
It's designed to be easy to use. About the size of a regular notebook. Big enough that you can actually read it without squinting, but small enough to keep with your Bible.
The pages are in full color.
Beautifully laid out. Easy to follow even if you've never studied the Bible before.
And here's what I love most about it.
You don't have to read it in order.
Want to understand what the gospel actually is?
Start with Romans or John.
Curious about the Old Testament stories?
Jump to Genesis.
Struggling to make sense of Revelation?
Go straight there and start.
It's designed to walk with you as you finally understand God's Word so you can move from just having a label to actually knowing Him.
This Isn’t About “Bible Knowledge.” This Is About Your Soul.
Let me be honest with you.
This isn't about becoming a Bible expert.
This isn't about impressing people at church.
This isn't about memorizing facts.
This is about your SOUL.
This is about whether you truly know the God you say you believe in.
This is about whether you can answer that one simple question my niece asked me.
"What is the gospel?"
Because if you can't answer that question, how can you say you're saved by it?
There's a verse in Hebrews 4:12 that says the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
God's Word isn't just information you read.
It's alive. It's active. It speaks to your heart.
And if you're not reading it, if you're not trying to understand it, how can you say you actually know the God who gave it to you?
What If You’re One Of The 93%?
I have to tell you something that's been weighing on me.
Jesus didn't say most people who call Him Lord will enter heaven.
He said the opposite.
In Matthew 7:13-14, He said: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
Many. Few.
What if the many are the people who can't explain the gospel?
What if the many are people like I was, calling themselves Christian but never taking the time to actually know God through His Word?
What if the few are the ones who took their faith seriously enough to understand what they believe?
I can't answer that for you.
But I can tell you this. I'm not taking any chances anymore.
I spent 52 years calling myself a Christian without knowing what that meant.
Now I know I'm saved because I know the God who saves me.
And I know Him through His Word.
Don't wait until you're standing before God to find out if you truly know Him.
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⚠️ Why You Must Act Right Now
Every day you wait is another day you're calling yourself a Christian without understanding what that actually means.
Another day you're building your faith on what other people told you instead of what God's Word says.
Another day you can't answer the one question that could change everything.
And none of us knows how many days we have left.
James 4:14 says: "You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."
What if you stood before God tomorrow?
Could you answer His question?
"Do you know Me?"
I couldn't have answered that question at Thanksgiving.
Now I can.
And I want that for you too.
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