90% of SBC churches have 300 or less in attendance

Over at Les Puryear’s blog, he posted some interesting stats on the number of small churches across denominations.  Noting that more than 2/3s of all Episcopal, Lutheran, and Nazarene churches have about 100-or-fewer members, Les asked LifeWay to run the numbers on Southern Baptists.  Here’s the result: In my own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention [...]

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Willow Creek study flawed says prof

Bradley Wright, associate professor in the sociology of Christianity at the University of Connecticut, has the best analysis of the Willow Creek study I have seen. Wright comes at it from a social science viewpoint, which is appropriate. He commends Willow Creek for tackling the survey, but critiques their methodology and interpretation. Wright says that [...]

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