Wednesday, January 9, 2008

WHAT NON-CHUCHGOERS THINK

A survey of non-churchgoers who agree with these statements:

• I have at least one close friend who is Christian - 71%
• I can have a "good relationship with God without belonging to a church - 86%
• Christianity today is more about organized religion than loving God and loving people -79%
• I would "be willing to listen" to someone tell "what he or she believed about Christianity - 78%
• God, a higher or supreme being, actually exists - 72%
• The church is "full of hypocrites - 72%
• The God of the Bible is "no different from the gods or spiritual beings depicted by world religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. - 61%
• Jesus died and came back to life - 52%
• Christians get on my nerves - 44%

The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points
Source: LifeWay Research, the research arm of the Southern Baptist Convention

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