“On Church Attendance and Avoidance” by the Barna Group
March 4, 2008
New Statistics on Church Attendance and Avoidance
An interesting blog post, doing a deep Christian delve into some surprising statistics!
The fact that millions of people are now involved in multiple faith communities – for instance, attending a conventional church one week, a house church the next, and interacting with an online faith community in-between – has rendered the standard measures of “churched” and “unchurched” much less precise?
QUIZ  
Which of these groups do you fit into?
Unattached
Intermittents
Homebodies
Blenders
Conventionals
One Response to ““On Church Attendance and Avoidance” by the Barna Group”
I think you should add “sect” and “cult” – not meant in the negative sense but in the sense in which these words are used in the Bible – groups that seek to obey Christ and are extremely well organised and well-knit and intense in their activities and direction but have the disadvantage of practising the “Us” and “Them” syndrome. Or do such people belong to “Conventionals”? In recent years, I have noticed large numbers of Christians moving into and entrenching themselves in these sects/cults probably because they provide an intense community atmosphere to be experienced.
I also wonder if labeling people as “conventionals” or “transients” helps. I find that labeling and categorising people often blinds us to their validity as simple human beings.
By Avy on Jan 1, 2009