Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Big Church/Small Church

Most churches with a tech ministry tend to be on the bigger side, but not always. I've always gone to 'big churches', and heard from people both on the outside and the inside of the 'big church' that "We're making shallow disciples" or "Sure more people go to that church, but what do they REALLY know about God?"

Well, Barna Group just did a church survey comparing beliefs of small church folks with big church folks. The results? Fascinating.

Here's a link to the survey results. Most interesting to me are the responses to questions about Biblical accuracy, the nature of evil, and if Jesus sinned or not. On Biblical accuracy, 75% followers from churches over 1000 members said the Bible is completely accurate. Small churches? 60-63%. 51% of followers in big churchers say Satan is real, as opposed to 30% of small churchers. And most telling of all 74% of big churchers say Jesus never sinned, as opposed to 49% of small churchers.

In a word, I feel 'vindication'. Why do you think this survey got the results it did? Is the movement of the Spirit in our churches just that counter-intuitive?

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