2009 Trends Analysis from the Barna Group

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Here is George Barna’s emerging themes in religion for 2009.

Theme 1: Increasingly, Americans are more interested in faith and spirituality than in Christianity.

Theme 2: Faith in the American context is now individual and customized. Americans are comfortable with an altered spiritual experience as long as they can participate in the shaping of that faith experience.

Theme 3: Biblical literacy is neither a current reality nor a goal in the U.S.

Theme 4: Effective and periodic measurement of spirituality – conducted personally or through a church – is not common at this time and it is not likely to become common in the near future.

Read more at The Barna Group

  • http://twitter.com/JosephWinston Joseph Winston

    This is the world that I live in. I taught classes in 2009 that addressed the issues and plan on continuing the discussion through teaching and preaching in 2010.

  • http://twitter.com/JosephWinston Joseph Winston

    This is the world that I live in. I taught classes in 2009 that addressed the issues and plan on continuing the discussion through teaching and preaching in 2010.


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