Using his background as an air traffic controller, Carl Kerby explains how "bottom strip" was a term used when controllers were overwhelmed - they needed to get back to the most critical aircraft first. He applies this concept to show how Genesis serves as Christianity's foundation when everything gets crazy in our culture.
Scripture Text
Genesis 1:1; Ephesians 4:14; 2 Timothy 3:16
Main Points or Ideas
- America's Spiritual Crisis - Despite being the most "Christian" nation, America faces massive problems: 1.7 million suicide attempts, 50,000 successful suicides, widespread drug abuse, and homelessness, indicating something is fundamentally wrong
- Biblical Worldview Has Been Lost - Gallup polls show less than half of evangelicals believe the Bible is God's actual Word, only 6% of professing Christians hold a biblical worldview, and shockingly, only 37% of pastors hold a biblical worldview, with youth pastors at only 12%
- The Educational Battle - Since 1983, there has been a deliberate effort in education to replace Christianity with humanism, as admitted in secular publications, creating generations that have been systematically turned away from biblical foundations
- Genesis as the Foundation - Just as air traffic controllers must return to the "bottom strip" when overwhelmed, Christians must return to Genesis when culture gets crazy. Genesis provides the foundational truth about who God is, who we are, and what happened, serving as the starting point for all other biblical truth
Conclusion
When everything in culture becomes chaotic and overwhelming, Christians must return to Genesis as the bottom strip of our faith - the foundational truth that God created everything and His Word is reliable from the very beginning.
