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With this issue, LEADERSHIP introduces this new column, a companion to “To Illustrate . . .” For seven years, readers have turned to “To Illustrate . . .” for stories and illustrations that communicate with impact, and they’ve given it high marks for its usefulness in their preaching.<\/p>\n\n

However, increasingly, church leaders recognize the need for an additional persuasive tool: accurate, forceful statistics. Statistics that take the pulse of society, that support or dispel assumptions, that clarify what’s happening around us.<\/p>\n\n

For each “To Verify . . .” column, the editors will select current statistics of greatest value to pastors, teachers, and other Christian communicators.<\/p>\n\n

Fast Facts<\/h2>\n\n

Percentage of Americans earning less than $15,000 a year who say they have achieved the American Dream: 5<\/p>\n\n

Percentage earning more than $50,000 a year who say this: 6<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of American children living with just one parent, in 1960: 10<\/p>\n\n

Percentage now: 24<\/p>\n\n

Current total of U.S. AIDS patients: 63,726<\/p>\n\n

Estimated number by the end of 1993: 450,000<\/p>\n\n

Average cost of a religious hardcover book in 1977: $12.26<\/p>\n\n

In 1987: $24.22<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of college freshmen who said the goal of “developing a meaningful philosophy of life” is important, in 1967: 83<\/p>\n\n

Percentage today: 39<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of college freshmen who say “being well-off financially” is one of their top goals, today: 76<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of Americans who do not believe in God: 1<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of adults who attend church in a typical week, in Ireland: 87<\/p>\n\n

Percentage in the U.S.: 41; in France: 12<\/p>\n\n

Number of hours of leisure time each week for an American adult, in 1973: 26.2<\/p>\n\n

Number of hours in 1987: 16.6<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of married young adults without children who attend religious services almost every week: 27<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of married young adults with children who attend religious services almost every week: 43<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of unchurched teenagers who performed volunteer service last year: 16<\/p>\n\n

Percentage of churched teenagers who did: 31<\/p>\n\n

Rewards of Success<\/h2>\n\n

What do American high-achievers say is their most important reward? What drives them to accomplish?<\/p>\n\n

Is it money? No, according to George Gallup, Jr., and Alee M. Gallup, authors of The Great American Success Story (Dow Jones-Irwin, 1986). Expensive possessions came in a distant tenth on a list of important rewards ranked by high-achievers.<\/p>\n\n

Is it fame? Close; peer recognition was second. <\/p>\n\n

But the key motivator for people who get things done is a sense of personal worth and self-respect.<\/p>\n\n

The Unchurched<\/h2>\n\n

About 44 percent of U.S. adults are unchurched, neither belonging to a church nor visiting one in the last six months, except for holidays, weddings, or funerals. This finding came from a Gallup study, “The Unchurched American, 1988,” which also reported:<\/p>\n\n

72 percent of these unchurched believe Jesus is the Son of God<\/p>\n\n

63 percent believe the Bible is God’s Word<\/p>\n\n

77 percent pray to God (41 percent daily)<\/p>\n\n

Surprisingly, 58 percent of unchurched adults said they’re open to joining a church if they found the right one. Yet in the past year, only 38 percent were invited to one.<\/p>\n\n

SOURCES – American Dream: Roper Organization, reported in Harper’s, 8\/88. Single-parent families: New York Times, 1\/28\/88, reported in Youthworker Update, 3\/88. AIDS: Government statistics, reported in the Washington Post and New York Times, 6\/5\/88. Book costs: Publisher’s Weekly, reported in Context, 5\/15\/88. College freshmen: American Council on Education survey of 290,000 college freshmen, reported in Group, 5\/88. Belief in God: 100% American by Daniel Weiss (Poseidon Press, forthcoming), reported in Good Housekeeping, 10\/88. Church attendance: Gallup Report by Norman Webb and Robert Wybrow (Sphere Books, Ltd., 1982). Leisure time: Survey by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc., commissioned by Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Reported in the Chicago Tribune, 3\/16\/88. Young marrieds’ church attendance: Princeton Religion Research Center’s PRRC Emerging Trends, 4\/88. Teenagers’ service: PRRC Emerging Trends, 5\/88.<\/p>\n\n

Leadership Winter 1989 p. 81 <\/p>\n\n

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