*A new study shows that 100% of Barna statistics are skewed to lend credibility to his anti-church bias.
I had a friend the other day quote me a Barna statistic. My response
was the above sentence. I am not doubting that we can gain some benefit
from Barna research and that some of it is actually legit and could be
helpful. However, I have become very leery of accepting anything that
Barna throws at us. First, because some of his findings have been shown
to be off. Secondly, because from what I have read of Barna he seems
to be promoting a churchless Christianity.
Bad Numbers
As Frank Turk has pointed out, there are a few secular studies—especially this one from The Wall Street Journal—that
pulls the rug out from under Barna’s research. Reputable statisticians
from Baylor have shown that young people are not living the church in
droves as Barna has reported and there is not statistical evidence that
women are fleeing the church like lemurs on holiday.
Further evidence is found in a book written by Bradley Wright entitled Christians
Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A
Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media.
Wright shows how many of the scare pollsters (like Barna) have bad
numbers. It seems that when those that are actually “born-again”,
instead of those just claiming to be, are polled the numbers change
dramatically. Continue at Mike Leake
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