Congregational stats you’ll find interesting

According to A Field Guide to U. S. Congregations: Who’s Going Where and Why, here are some interesting statistics on churches: Number of people associated in any way with the median congregation:  200 Number who regularly participate in the median congregation:  110 Number 18 or older who participate regularly:  80 Average attendance at worship:  90 That actually [...]

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The barn vs. the field

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” — Matthew 9:37-38 NIV It occurred to me the other day that the difference in the church of modernity and a missional church is this:  [...]

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