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Recent stats on politics, evolution, and ministry.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 11/14/2011 10:20AM

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Politics

86% Protestant pastors who say the government should not revoke a church's tax exemption if a pastor endorses political candidates.

84% Protestant pastors who believe that pastors should not endorse political candidates.

Source: Lifeway Research

Evolution

Self-identified evangelical pastors on whether the earth is 6,000 years old:

No answer: 13%

Strongly agree : 29%

Somewhat agree: 19%

Somewhat disagree: 12%

Strongly disagree: 27%

Self-identified evangelical pastors on whether God used evolution to create people:

No answer: 3%

Strongly agree: 8%

Somewhat agree: 10%

Somewhat disagree: 9%

Strongly disagree: 70%

Source: LifeWay Research

Ministry

Protestant pastors on how many close friends (not in their immediate family) they have within their church:

12%: 0-1

4%: 1-2

10%: 1-3

38%: 3-5

16%: 6-10

18%: 11

Source: Lifeway Research

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Steve Skeete

November 22, 2011 3:11pm

72% of pastor claim to have three or more friends in their congregations. If what I have heard about friendship is true then this is a startling statistic. I have been told that to have more than 2-3 persons one can call "true friends" is a rare thing. So to have more than three "close" friend probable means this survey has to be re-taken. Back to the questionaire gentlemen. Next time give a definition of "close" and see if the statistics change.

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