Tag: Pew Forum

Interesting church statistics

Post author By Felicity Dale
Post date December 18, 2013
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According to a good and informative 2013 year-end status report by Leadership Network providing statistics on the state of mega-churches in this country, almost 10 percent of Protestant churchgoers attend a mega-church. According to a Pew Forum report in December 2009, (if there is a more recent report, I am not aware of it), 9 percent of… Read More

Tags church statistics, house churches, Leadership Network, mega-churches, Pew Forum, Protestants

A fashionable fad

Several years ago, in our book The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church, I wrote a chapter on some of the potential pitfalls the house church movement might face as it became “fashionable.” Here’s what I said: Another hazard is that of becoming fashionable, the latest phenomenon in… Read More

Tags fashionable fad, house church, organic church, Pew Forum, simple church