Tag: Pew Research

  • Dan

    So, Pastor, what good are you?

    Some of my favorite cartoons for church have a line that goes something like this: A parishoner sees the pastor’s wife in a grocery store and asks the wife, “So, does your husband work, or he is still pastoring?” Those always give me a smile. But the perception is more reality than we, as pastors, like to admit. Recent surveys…

  • Dan

    Why Truly Pastoring Is Vital, and Why You Need to Belong to MY Church

    New statistics are out. We LOVE statistics. And our survey says… Fewer people are going to church and more people are not “affiliating” with a religion. Shocking. We can wring our hands and declare the loss of the culture or the backslidden state of the Church… OR, we could equip the people we have to live as light in the…