About David Prince

David E. Prince is pastor of preaching and vision at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky and assistant professor of Christian preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of In the Arena and Church with Jesus as the Hero. He blogs at Prince on Preaching and frequently writes for The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, For the Church, the BGEA and Preaching Today

How to Approach the Scripture

I am not usually much on surveys and statistics, but one stat that has remained consistent for over a decade is how little professing Christians in America (including pastors) read the Scripture. Barna’s 2020 report