Barna Research Reveals Top Three Issues That Concern Americans

Americans are most concerned with three issues, which are perceived as “major” problems facing the country by three-quarters of the general population.

The problems are poverty (78 percent), personal debt of individual Americans (78 percent), and HIV/AIDS (76 percent), according to the Barna survey.

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Date: 1/21/2008

Current Research Shows That Participants of the Southern Baptist Convention Are Not Getting Any Younger

A new study of attendance at Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings shows the percentage of messengers in the 18-39 age group steadily declining since 1980 – the early days of the SBC’s Conservative Resurgence – and dropping sharply since 2004.

The percentage of messengers in the 60-plus age group, however, has increased dramatically.

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Date: 1/17/2008

The International Bulletin of Missionary Research Reported that 2,231,421,000 People in the World Are Christian

Every twenty-four hours the world has a population net growth of 219,000 people.
Christians number 170,000 converts per day but find 91,000 defectors, so the net growth is 79,000 Christians each day.
Of the 2,113,199,000 "affiliated" Christians, 1,476,690,000 are "church attenders."
There were 175,000 Christian martyrs worldwide this year, which means 480 per day.

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Date: 1/17/2008

A Recent Harris Poll Determined the Number of Americans Who Believe in Heaven and Hell

According to recent study released by the Harris Poll, sixty-two percent of Americans believe in a literal hell and the devil.
Forty-two percent of the Americans surveyed stated that they believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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Date: 12/3/2007

A Study by LifeWay Research Indicated Half of Southern Baptist Pastors Believe In A Private Prayer L

The Lifeway Research study indicated that the majority of Protestant senior pastors (63 percent) and laity (51 percent) believe in the gift of a private prayer language.

Of the Protestant laity surveyed, 15 percent responded "Don't know" when asked if they believe in the gift of private prayer language.
Of the Protestant pastors, only 3 percent are unsure.

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Date: 11/4/2007

Christianity Today Survey Reveals Which Pastors Get Paid the Most

Presbyterian senior pastors have a higher salary than those of any other denomination, according to Christianity Today's latest church salary survey.
- The average salary for the head pastor in Presbyterian churches was $78,000 (plus housing/parsonage).
Baptist senior pastors earned next to last with $67,000.

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Date: 9/18/2007

A Majority of Protestants Believe That Scripture Prohibits Drinking

Although an overwhelming majority of Protestant pastors and lay people agree that Scripture indicates people should never get drunk, only less than a third say it forbids drinking, a new study showed.

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Date: 9/9/2007

Research Reveals Young Adults Stop Attending Church Between the Ages of 18-22

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Date: 8/8/2007

A Study by Gallup Indicates that People Have Less Confidence in the Church

Of those surveyed, only 46 percent said they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in church/organized religion - one percentage point of being the lowest in Gallup's history since 1973.

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Date: 6/29/2007

Fifty Percent of Southern Baptists Believe in a Private Prayer Language

Half of Southern Baptist pastors say they believe the Holy Spirit gives some people a special language to pray to God – what is known to some as private prayer language – a surprising new study found.
- Sixty-three percent of Protestant senior pastors believe in the gift of a private prayer language.
- Within the SBC, 50 percent of pastors believe in the gift and 43 percent do not.

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Date: 6/27/2007