http://blogs.lifeway.com/blog/edstetzer/2007/12/younger_leaders_
Now that we are back from the holidays, we start the new blog year with research. In this case, it is denominational research.
LifeWay Research released an analysis in Facts and Trends tracking certain age groups and their attendance at Southern Baptist Convention meetings.
The report is an analysis of age / attendance numbers and a graph of two demographic groups. These numbers are collected each year and we graphed them. (We will post some other graphs of the data later.)
Thom Rainer (and Danny Akin) have weighed in here. Later today, we will share some new graphs that give additional information. Tomorrow, I will share some feedback from Jimmy Draper on the subject. If you would like to enter into the dialogue, feel free to do so in the comments. Perhaps Thom Rainer's quotation referring to Morris Chapman would be a good place to start:
Morris Chapman stood before an audience of state convention executives and state Baptist paper editors in February 2002 and said that the SBC stands at a crossroads. It is facing the choice of becoming a group of committed churches that impact the world with the gospel or relegating itself to becoming an ineffective regional denomination.
We’re six years down the road. Which road are we choosing?
What do you think? Which road are we choosing?
