Sentences with phrase «percent said churches»

For what it's worth, LifeWay Research conducted a poll during the 2016 campaign that found 73 percent of evangelical Americans said pastors should abstain from endorsing candidates, and 65 percent said churches should abstain.

Seventy - three percent say pastors should abstain, while about 65 percent say churches should abstain.

Not exact matches

I heard a pastor the other day say that his church's giving was down by 50 percent.

Only five out of 100 people gave churches generally an A for their handling of «the issue of homosexuality» in the Public Religion Research Institute survey, while 28 percent said their own church handled it well.

Forty - nine percent said they think churches should have a say in public debates about political and social questions.

Powell said I should spend roughly 80 percent of my time church - shopping at places that fall within my personal church values and about 20 percent of the time experimenting.

The Sunday following Trump's order, leaders of eight evangelical organizations involved with the Evangelical Immigration Table released a letter to the president and vice president, saying, «While the US has... received only a fraction of 1 percent of the world's refugees annually, we believe the refugee resettlement program provides a lifeline to these uniquely vulnerable individuals and a vital opportunity for our churches.»

Through the seventies and eighties, as at present, 40 percent of Americans say they attended church or synagogue in the last seven days.

As AW Tozer once said: «If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference.»

The opinion becomes stronger among white evangelicals who attend church weekly, 88 percent of whom said employers should be able to refuse services.

More specifically, 18 percent disagreed with the church's stance on political or social issues, 17 percent said they were only going to church to please others anyway, and 16 percent said they no longer wanted to identify with church or organized religion.

In the 2016 Barna research study commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry, church leadership indicated that this problem is much bigger than it was 20 years ago, yet only 7 percent of pastors said they have a ministry program for those struggling with porn.

Seven in ten white evangelicals said churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship contribute to solving social problems (70 %), down from 86 percent in 2008.

Only 29 percent of churches say they're under budget for their fiscal year.

Of the one thousand churches surveyed, two - thirds reported that they're meeting or exceeding their annual budget, and of that number, 22 percent say they're over budget.

According to Lifeway research, 66 percent of churched young adults rated the opportunity to meet the needs of others (locally and globally) as extremely important in their lives, and 47 percent of unchurched young adults said the same.

The LDS church says New York State has seen a rise in its membership over the past decade, growing to 78,000 members, a 75 percent increase since 2000.

Mainline pastors are also more likely to say Pope Francis has influenced their opinion of the Catholic Church, with 50 percent saying the impact has been positive and 9 percent saying it has been negative.

The Bible says that few will find the narrow path, and yet the divorce rate in the Church is actually only 8 to 12 percent (contrary to what made up states say), which means the majority of the Church are still married to their original spouse and yet it says few, so obviously marriage isn't one of the things that can get you in.

As I said earlier, on average, people give about 4 percent of their income to the Church.

As I said in Lost and Found, in the midst of a hysterical panic about 94 percent of evangelical young adults leaving church, «Crises sell books but usually don't fix problems.»

Only practicing Protestants (those who identify as Protestant, attend church at least once a month, and say their faith is very important to them) thought the Bible was especially needed this year: 86 percent said politicians would be more civil if they read their Bible regularly, up from 81 percent in 2015.

Sadly, only three percent of Protestant churches have said that they have accepted direct financial responsibility for a new church as its primary sponsor within the last year.

Considering that church attendance and religion in general are on the decline, the survey's other finding may be somewhat surprising: Just 17 percent say they never pray (though that number too, is a new record high)...

Using a four - part measurement of religious observance for Christians — weekly church attendance, daily prayer, saying religion is important and believing in God with «absolute certainty» — Pew found that 70 percent of Christian college grads were highly committed to their religion.

Schroeder says that fewer than one percent of churches responded, and that neither proposal won majority support.

(Again, in the Pew study an overwhelming 97 percent of respondents from churches with «high access» to Internet communications said that e-mail «helped congregational staff and members stay in touch.»)

Overall, 72 percent of pastors say their church is personally involved in racial reconciliation, and 90 percent of pastors strongly or somewhat agree that racial reconciliation is mandated by the gospel, the LifeWay study found.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

Megachurches represent less than 1 percent of U.S. non-Catholic congregations, but Thumma said that they warrant further study because of their impact on other churches.

Compassion turns down 80 percent of the foreign churches that want to receive assistance from the ministry, so «there is no lack of demand,» he said.

The high point was the 2004 election, when 34 percent of churchgoing white evangelicals, 31 percent of Catholics, and 27 percent of white mainline Protestants said their churches provided election information.

Even though over 60 percent of Americans are church members and more than half of them are Protestants and over 55 percent of the population generally say that religion is «very important» in their lives, very few people seem to think that religion is «very important» for higher education.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

Harris quotes a poll taken after a 1992 evangelistic campaign in Costa Rica, for example, which showed that 80 percent of the 5,000 people who said they changed religions as a result of the campaign were back in the Catholic Church within five months.

People who say they never go to church backed Gore 61 - 32, as did 70 percent of those who support the unlimited abortion license and the same percentage of those who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.

15 percent of Australians said they attended church in the previous week.

About 13 percent of evangelicals say they support BLM, less than half the share of practicing Christians (28 %) or those who attended church in the past week (30 %) who also do so.

When those who had attended the church were asked what the reason was for their attendance, 86 percent of respondents said they had attended because of a personal invitation.

Of this 15 percent, 87 percent said it was money that would not have otherwise gone to the local church; 13 percent said it was.

A study of former partners of CBN found that 42 percent of those interviewed said that the greatest amount of their financial support went to their local church: only II percent said that CBN receives the greatest share of their giving.

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

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Today only 44 percent of Americans have «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in «the church or organized religion,» Gallup said.

They asked 1,000 senior pastors of Protestant churches around the country if someone within their organization had embezzled money — which is largely tithed and given by congregants — and a shocking 9 percent said yes.

The three nuclear plants in Scriba account for 30 percent of Oswego County's tax base, County Administrator Phil Church said.

«Probiotics is a 60 - million - dollar market and 90 percent of that market is derived from two types of bacteria essentially,» says Scheiman, a microbiologist and post-doctoral fellow at the Wyss Institute, which was founded by renowned Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church.

Of those who did not meet online, nearly 22 percent met through work, 19 percent through friends, nine percent at a bar or club and four percent at church, the study said.

«Wesley United Methodist Church has adopted our school for a local mission, due to the high number (59 percent) of low - income families who attend our school,» said Corcoran.