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Copyright, Dave Jacobs 2010
| Encouragement, hope, and ideas for you. |
"It's not about success, it's
about significance."
- Dave Jacobs
about significance."
- Dave Jacobs
Curing Christian Stats Abuse
by Ed Stetzer
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Note: Ed's article is longer than you are used to seeing at my website. It's worth the read.
Below you'll find the complete article for you to download, and again...it will be worth it.
-Dave
Curing Christian Stats Abuse
by Ed Stetzer
Once a choice morsel of misinformation gets out, it multiplies faster than dandelions in the
spring. We have all heard these soul-seizing yet false factoids. Some of us have even
repeated them:
"Christianity will die out in this generation unless we do something now."
"Only 4 percent of this generation is Christian."
"Ninety-four percent of teenagers drop out of church, never to return again."
And perhaps my favorite: "With its 195 million unchurched people, America has become
the new mission field. America has more unchurched people than the entire populations of
all but 11 of the world's 194 nations." The "195 million unchurched people" statistic is all
over the place-from books to blogs to church bulletins. And those who quote it often
attribute it to researcher George Barna. The problem is, it isn't true.
Get the whole article here.
Below you'll find the complete article for you to download, and again...it will be worth it.
-Dave
Curing Christian Stats Abuse
by Ed Stetzer
Once a choice morsel of misinformation gets out, it multiplies faster than dandelions in the
spring. We have all heard these soul-seizing yet false factoids. Some of us have even
repeated them:
"Christianity will die out in this generation unless we do something now."
"Only 4 percent of this generation is Christian."
"Ninety-four percent of teenagers drop out of church, never to return again."
And perhaps my favorite: "With its 195 million unchurched people, America has become
the new mission field. America has more unchurched people than the entire populations of
all but 11 of the world's 194 nations." The "195 million unchurched people" statistic is all
over the place-from books to blogs to church bulletins. And those who quote it often
attribute it to researcher George Barna. The problem is, it isn't true.
Get the whole article here.