NASHVILLE, Tenn., 9/18/06 -- Surveying 413 pastors, the July/August 2006 LifeWay Research survey asked Southern Baptist pastors to indicate their position concerning the following question: "Do you consider yourself a five-point Calvinist?"

• LifeWay Research found that 10 percent of Southern Baptist pastors consider themselves five-point Calvinists.
• After analyzing the demographics of the 10 percent who affirm Calvinism, LifeWay Research also found no clear age correlation.

Only 6 percent of clergy and 11 percent of laity believe their own church is very involved in local politics or political issues

• 36% of ministers stated their church is somewhat involved in local political issues
• 7 % of clergy say their church is very involved in national politics
• The only type of political involvement deemed appropriate (a rating of 4 or 5) by a majority of ministers and laypeople is encouraging the congregation to vote 

• Nearly half of Americans (47.2%) identify themselves as "Bible-believing"
• Only 15 percent of the population use the term "Evangelical" to describe their religious identity and barely two in 100 Americans say it is the best description.
• Just a third of persons in Evangelical Protestant congregations and denominations (32.6%) refer to themselves as "Evangelical" 
• Persons with household incomes of more than $100,000 a year are twice as likely to describe themselves as "Theologically Liberal" than are persons with household incomes of $35,000 or less a year
• Approximately one-fifth of the U.S. population have read a book in the Left-Behind series (19.0%) and/or the Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (19.0%).
• Of those who spend more than $50 a month on religious products, more than half (54.0%) are Evangelical Christians.