Responsibility The following article brings to light a growing problem in the Christian world and it is one that needs to be address so it can be rectified.  It can be found at : http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2007/09/Tabloid-Archaeology.aspx  and is titled: Tabloid Archaeology.  Here is a quote from the first paragraph: "One day a friend sent me an invitation to a church meeting and asked me if I knew anything about the subject. On the flyer was a picture of a human skeleton with crooked teeth and a rock embedded in his forehead. The title above the skull read: “They’ve Found Goliath’s Skull!” Needless to say, that caught my attention." In the ever on going assault on the Bible, church congregations, ministers or just congrgants feel the pressure to prove the Bible and their faith true.  They get over-whelmed by the many scholars and archaeologists publishing their popular works citing some discovery or dating change which renders the Bible untrue. Or they become weak in the faithbecause physical evidence supporting the Biblical record is sparse or long in coming. Well the church does NOT need to resort tio the above tactics, nor do they need to mis-identify a piece of wood  found inthe mountains of Turkey as Noah's ark to be strong in their faith or justify their belief inthe Bible. Such acts show a desparation not a belief in Jesus as the church is looking for something the world will accept and then spur them to beat a path to the church door. Won't happen.  The church does NOT need to prove the Bible true, we accept it as such when we believe and we do not need one piece of physical evidence to backus up because we believe God's word.  Faith, not physical evidence, is what pleases God; 'without faith ye cannot please God' If God wanted us to rely on physical evidence then we would be finding so much more than we have and there wold be little question about the truthfulness of the Bible.  We would have all the physical evidence at our fingertips that we would need to prove God's word. What should the church and its members do?  They do as the Bible says, stand upon the truth, the words of God and live the life as Jesus and the apostles insrtucted.  We do not need to get desparate because the truth does not change despite the 'discoveries' of 'theories' of the secular world. They need to get responsible in their information gathering and check the sources of where they are getting their news.  if the source is not credible,then the church needs to dismiss the story, for if they don't then they end up embarrassed and their impact diminished. There are enough credible websites, archaeologists, and sources who are christian which can help the church examine the stories they have come across and will give them tips on how to view such articles. The church does not need people who claim to be christian running round the world making all sorts of exotic, exciting claims when they are not true. Such people cause more problems than they solve.  The church needs to be responsible and hold these people in check, placing guidelines uponthem so that their actions do not hurt the cause of Christ and embarrass the church. Just because the article or story contains what the church wants to hear does it mean the disovery is true and the church has to be cautious when dealing with archaeology because there are frauds in that field who do not care who they mislead, there are fanaticswho kick over a stone and call it a holy artifact when it is not and there are those who do not believe the Bible who willdismiss legitimate discoveries that prove the Bible true, for whatever reason they want to use. The church needs to be serious, calm, steadfast for they have believed the Bible, they have believed the truth and they do not need to be afraid.  Let the secular world be desperate for they are the ones who want to escape the message of the Bible and the final judgment of God. We do not have to do anything but preach the truth and the above quote, is not the truth so the church must be responsible in their actions and make sure they have the truth BEFORE proclaiming such discoveries or stories. The last point is very important for the church is not in the gossip business, the world does not need more gossip; it needs the truth and the church cannot blindly accept any person's word for the story they are promoting.  They need to verify the article and discovery FIRST before sharing the news with the world.  The secular world will double check and if they find that the church is wrong, then the church has either lost a soul(s) or made it more difficult to win the lost. The church has very little room for error, for publishing something not true reflects upon them, their belief, the Bible and Jesus. The church needs to be careful, this is not a game and people's eternity stands on the line.The church has to be put down the childishness and start being adults.