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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
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Presbyterian senior pastors have a higher salary than those of any other denomination, according to Christianity Today's latest church salary survey.
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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
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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
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