Something to chew on....

Christians possess a divine privilege that the world cannot have: they have been given the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16) and are empowered by the Holy Spirit to know the Truth (1 John 2:20). But the church has deferred much of this gift to the popular scientific ideas of today, abandoning its divine right to the Truth.

…many churches are doctrinally and morally weak. Many, many people are thirsting for something stronger than ambiguous stories and unanswered questions on the origins of life, and they seek confirmation of the holy nature of a God who is often portrayed as cruel and untrustworthy.

How can the church impact the world for Christ if so many professing Christians mistrust their God and the revelation He gave to them? Why accommodate the secular and often blatantly atheistic world, when the biblical worldview answers the many questions that the world cannot? The Bible offers the power of the true gospel, and despite the protestations of the relativistic culture, people are hungry for Truth.

Reclaiming the Full Gospel Message (an exerpt from 5 Reasons to Believe in Recent Creation by Henry Morris III) p. 41

If the Lord Jesus Christ had not literally risen physically from the grave, we could never be certain that he had ever really finished the work...if he has died for our sins, we must not only be certain that he has died, but that he has finished dying, and that there is no longer death...when God raised his Son from the dead, he was proclaiming to the whole world...he has done everything. He has fulfilled every demand. Here he is risen-therefore I am satisfied with him...

The devil cannot hold him; death and hell cannot hold him. He has mastered them all, he has emerged on the other side. He is the Son of God, and he has completed the work which the Father had sent him to do....It is only in the light of the Resurrection that I finally have an assurance of my sins forgiven. It is only in the light of the Resurrection that I ultimately know that I stand in the presence of God absolved from guilt and shame and every condemnation.

If it is not a fact that Christ literally rose from the grave, then you are still guilty before God. Your punishment has not been borne, your sins have not been dealt with, you are yet in your sins. It matters that much: without the Resurrection you have no standing at all.

Adrian Warnock, Raised with Christ, Crossway, Wheaton, Il, 2010 quoting Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Assurance of Our Salvation (Wheaton, Il, Crossway, 2000) 492