{"id":108856,"date":"2022-01-18T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108856"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:32:48","slug":"ct-evangelical-churchgoers-are-pretty-happy-with-how-things-are-going-at-their-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108856","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Evangelical churchgoers are pretty happy with how things are going at their churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when pastors feel <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2021\/november\/pastor-burnout-pandemic-barna-consider-leaving-ministry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">particularly under pressure<\/a>, here\u2019s some good news from the pews: Evangelical churchgoers are pretty happy with how things are going at their churches.<\/p>\n<p>Most don\u2019t think the sermons are too long; if anything, they\u2019d like to see more in-depth teaching from leaders. They aren\u2019t bothered by too many messages about giving. They don\u2019t think social issues and politics play an outsized role in the teaching.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a new survey of evangelical churchgoers in the US, the Congregational Scorecard conducted by Grey Matter Research and Consulting and Infinity Concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Around three-quarters are satisfied with their congregation approach to various areas of church life and wouldn\u2019t want it to change, the survey found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2022\/january\/evangelical-sermon-length-church-satisfaction-pandemic-surv.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Evangelicals are largely happy with their church and its teaching\u2014if anything, they want to see pastors go more in-depth. <\/p>\n<p>New Grey Matter survey: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhIzO2wpba\">https:\/\/t.co\/AhIzO2wpba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kate shellnutt (@kateshellnutt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateshellnutt\/status\/1483453231439175688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when pastors feel particularly under pressure, here\u2019s some good news from the pews: Evangelical churchgoers are pretty happy with how things are going at their churches. Most don\u2019t think the sermons are too long; if anything, they\u2019d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108856\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,184,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicals","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108862,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108856\/revisions\/108862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}