Articles for tag: Baptism Statistics

2023 Church Stats and Charts

Each year, Christian Standard collects data from hundreds of churches about their average worship attendance, number of baptisms, minister’s name, website, etc., and compiles this into charts based on church size. Columnist Kent Fillinger uses this information as the basis for several articles during the year. This data in this link, collected in early 2024, is based on statistics from 2023. DOWNLOAD THE 2023 CS CHURCH ATTENDANCE CHARTS

The Invisible Renaissance

What Independent Christian Churches Have to Celebrate . . . and the Challenges Ahead We live in a world of polls describing a hopelessly post-Christian culture in which the church is constantly losing ground. A 2020 Gallup Poll found the number of Americans now affiliated with a church is just 47 percent, a sub-50 percent number for the first time in 80 years. Cary Nieuwhof shared a recent Barna/Stadia Poll that stated 30 percent fewer people in Generation Z (those born 1999 to 2015) attend church than baby boomers (those born 1946 to 1964). Another Barna study informed us that

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