Jeff Foxworthy, clean comedian and Christian husband & father, says that Christians today don’t know Scripture as well as they did years ago.

Foxworthy, who hosts “The American Bible Challenge” on secular cable channel Game Show Network with gospel music legend Kirk Franklin, spoke of the lack of Biblical literacy he’s seen during his time hosting the show.

“We have way too many distractions these days,” Foxworthy told the Christian Post.  He said the people on the show are very knowledgeable but that it’s that head knowledge which initially made him not want to host a “Bible game show.”

“My faith is very important to me, but when they first asked me about it I had to say, ‘Let me go think about this, because can you do a game show about the Bible?’ Really, I didn’t want to be in line at hell looking up going, ‘It was a game show, right? That’s why it was a game show.’ And we kind of went back and forth because – and I’ll tell you where I landed. I thought it would be kind of weird to just reward people for the things that they knew, because the only people Jesus got sideways with were the Pharisees who had all this head knowledge but they had no heart knowledge.”

Foxworthy is the one who came up with the idea that those who win would get a financial award to give to their community.

Foxworthy also told the Post that it was 20 years ago during the height of his “You Might Be A Redneck If..” period that he felt led to be bolder about his faith.

“That happens in so many ways, whether it’s sharing a testimony at a Wild game dinner, leading a small group Bible study at a homeless shelter for years or hosting the “American Bible Challenge”,” Foxworthy said.