Where are the people?

I’m sure you’ve played this game as a kid. Maybe even with your kids. Here’s the church, there’s the steeple, open the door and see all the people.

Joshua Cody over at Church Marketing Sucks has a great post about George Barna’s recent findings about the unchurched.

They define being unchurched as not having attended church in the last six months. And using that definition, Barna and friends came up with the following statistics of unchurched demographics:

63% of Asians are unchurched
49% of homosexuals
47% of political liberals
37% of single adults
34% of Hispanics
31% of heterosexuals
29% of married adults
25% of African Americans
19% of political conservatives

To me, the numbers in and of themselves aren’t scary. When you group them, it gets different. Look at liberals vs. conservatives. Heterosexuals vs. homosexuals. Hispanics vs. Asians vs. African Americans. Married vs. single. It’s easy to say that the problem is on the attendee’s end. But is it right?

Amazing stuff. Thanks Josh!

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