CHURCH ATTENDANCE STATS

Hi all,

Just came across some recent stats on current church attendance numbers. (Most of these stats come from the book, "Confessions of a Reformission Rev" by Mark Driscoll) See where your church fits in the following list:

--> Churches with 75 people or less = 50% of all churches
--> Churches with 150 people or less = 75% of all churches
--> Churches with 250 people or less = 85% of all churches
--> Churches with 800 people or less = 98% of all churches
--> Churches with 2,000 people or more = .22% of all churches
--> Churches with 3,000 people or more = .11% of all churches


Said another way for example, if you are in a church of 250 people, you are in the top 15% of all church sizes.

Now, while the smaller churches dominate the overall percentages, the situation is exactly reversed when you start looking at attendance of people in those churches: For example, While about 60% of churches are 100 people or smaller, those churches represent only 41% of all attendance. But churches of 1,000 or more, which are only about 1% of all churches, hold 12% of the population of U.S. church-going adults.

As Rick Warren has said, it takes all kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people. So it is not that being big or small is good or bad. The real question is, Are you being faithful to teach and shepherd the people whom God has sent your way?

Psalm 78:72 says of King David:
"He cared for them with a true heart
and led them with skillful hands."

Are you applying a "true heart" and "skillful hands" to the people God sends your way?

For the kingdom of God,

Dr. Bill