Study shows movies with a Christian theme do better at the box office
- A recent study that looked at top box office movies from 1998 through 2006 has found that films with a strong Christian worldview tend to perform better at the theatres than those that include explicit sex and nudity and/or extreme foul language.
- According to the study, the highest and lowest averages for films with a strong Christian worldview were between $106.3 million per movie and $30.1 million per movie, respectively.
- Those films that have strong profanity, sex, and/or nudity had a range of high-lows from $27.7 million per movie to $6.3 million per movie, respectively.
- The vast majority of moviegoers, which includes the 142 million Americans who go to church every week, prefer positive Christian movies with morally uplifting content.
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Date: 3/16/2007
Fuller Center for Youth and Family Poll: Youth Workers and What Assets are Most Important to Youth
- The study showed that 91 percent of them listed spiritual and religious development
- 77 percent named adults mentors
- 77 percent listed activity participation
- 65 percent mentioned empowerment
- 55 percent said school engagement
- 53 percent said risk avoidance
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Date: 1/16/2007
Barna Update: Those in House Churches Satisfied with Church Life
- Two-thirds of house church attenders (68%) were "completely satisfied" with the leadership of their church, compared to only half of those attending a conventional church (49%).
- Two-thirds of the house church adherents (66%) were "completely satisfied" with the faith commitment of the people involved in their gathering.
- Three out of five house church adults (61%) were "completely satisfied" with the level of community and personal connectedness they experience, compared to only two out of five adults who are involved in a conventional church (41%).
- A majority of those in a house (59%) said they were "completely satisfied" with the spiritual depth they experience in their house church setting.
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Date: 1/8/2007
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