{"id":13271,"date":"2009-06-10T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/survey_megachurches_attract_many_under_45\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:15:19","slug":"survey_megachurches_attract_many_under_45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13271","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Megachurches Attract Many Under 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megachurches are most attractive to younger adults, and almost all who arrive at their sanctuaries have darkened a church\u2019s door before, a new survey shows.<\/p>\n<p>The study by Leadership Network and Hartford Institute for Religion Research, released Tuesday (June 9) found that almost two-thirds (62 percent) of adults who attend Protestant megachurches are younger than 45, compared to 35 percent of U.S. Protestant congregations overall.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that just 6 percent of those attending a megachurch\u201d\u201ddefined as a congregation attended by 2,000 or more each week\u201d\u201dhad never attended a worship service before arriving at their current church. Almost half (44 percent) had come from another local church, 28 percent had transplanted from a distant congregation and 18 percent had not attended church for a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=14357\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megachurches are most attractive to younger adults, and almost all who arrive at their sanctuaries have darkened a church\u2019s door before, a new survey shows. The study by Leadership Network and Hartford Institute for Religion Research, released Tuesday (June 9)<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13271\">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":[48,39,42,419,183,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271","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=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}