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| | 3/22/2007 | | Unchurched Population Nears 100 Million in U.S. | | | "A new survey released by The Barna Research Group, which has been tracking America's religious behavior and beliefs since 1984, reveals that one out of every three adults (33%) is classified as unchurched - meaning they have not attended a religious service of any type during the past six months. While that figure is considerably higher than the one of five who qualified as unchurched in the early Nineties, it is statistically unchanged since 36% were recorded as having avoided religious services in the company's 1994 study."1
"Some population segments are notorious church avoiders. For instance, 47% of political liberals are unchurched, more than twice the percentage found among political conservatives (19%). African Americans were less likely to be unchurched (25%) than were whites (32%) or Hispanics (34%). Asians, however, doubled the national average: 63% were unchurched! Single adults continued a historic pattern of being more likely than married adults to stay away from religious sevices (37% versus 29%, respectively)."2
"Residents of the West (42%) and Northeast (39%) remain the most church resistant".3,
Massive Numbers
"When these statistics are projected across the aggregate adult population, the numbers are staggering. An estimated 73 million adults are presently unchurched. When teens and children are added, the total swells to roughly 100 million Americans.
To put that figure in context, if the unchurched population of the United States were a nation of its own, that group would be the eleventh most populated nation on earth (trailing only China, India, the churched portion of the United States, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan and Mexico)."3
Comment:
Needless to say, the importance of ministries like American Mission for Opening Churches is obviously clear. We need more Bible Teaching Churches planted, but in order to do that we need more Missionaries. Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers into the fields.
1.From The Barna Update, 3/19/2007 -http://www.barna.org
2. ibid.
3. ibid.
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