Church Time

Church sill matters:

The survey found that 41% of adults “definitely” do not agree with the statement “Church is not relevant in today’s world.” Among practicing Christians, 79% “definitely disagree” with the statement, with 9% “somewhat disagree[ing],” suggesting the Bible is still a significant part of the lived American experience, correlating with an uptick in all generations finding faith. “Weekly church attendance has experienced a gradual decline over the past two decades, but recent Barna data tracking shows signs of hope. Attendance peaked at 48 percent of U.S. adults in 2009, declined to 27 percent by 2017 and stood at 28 percent by 2024,” the report noted. “However, preliminary data from 2025 suggests a potential uptick in weekly church attendance to approximately 32 percent,” it continued. “Since 2022, men have consistently shown higher weekly attendance rates than women, reversing a long-established pattern (30% of men vs. 27% of women attending weekly as of 2024). From 2000 to 2015, women attended church at higher rates than men, then from 2016 to 2021, men and women attended at about the same rate.”

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