Trends That Affect You and Your Church

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Trends That Affect Youand Your Church
Kerby Anderson
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Biblical Perspective

• 1 Chronicles 1232
• Isaiah 328
• Proverbs 169

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Changes in Our World
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The Baby Boom
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Children of the Sixties

• Affluence

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Economic Expansion
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Children of the Sixties

• Affluence

• National optimism
• Parental indulgence
• Psychology of entitlement
• Personal freedom

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21st Century Family

• Husband and wife employed
• Smaller families
• Non-traditional families

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Dual-income families

• All adult women (16-68) in the workforce - 65
• Working women with pre-school children - 68
• Discretionary time

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Women in the Workforce
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Smaller families

• At current rates, women will average 1.8 children
• Possible decline in population
• Adult-oriented culture

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Nontraditional families

• Adults living alone death, divorce, deferred
  marriage
• Percentage in 1950s 6
• Percentage today 30
• Loneliness and isolation

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Adults Living Alone
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Challenges and Opportunities
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Haves and Have-NotsMedian Income for Adults

• No diploma 16,124
• High school 22,895
• College 40,478
• Advanced degree 63,229

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Ethnic Distribution

• Group 1990 2000 2010
• White 76 71 68
• Hispanic 9 11 14
• Black 12 12 13
• Asian 3 4 5

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Moral Truth

• Christians Non-Christians
• Absolute 49 23
• Relative 13 23
• Unsure 38 54

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Religious Involvement

• Weekly 1990 2000 2010

Attend Church 49 40 35 Read Bible
45 40 32 Prayed 88 83 78
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Religious Internet Use
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Are Christians Worldly?
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Christian Marriage

• Have been divorced (among those who have been
  married)
• Non-Christians - 23
• Born-again Christians - 27

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Reading Habits

• Read all or part of a book for pleasure, in the
  past week
• Non-Christians - 57
• Born-again Christians - 50

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Christian Giving

• Donated to a non-profit organization within the
  last month.
• Non-Christians - 48
• Born-again Christians - 47

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Christian Giving

• 8 of born again Christians tithed their income
  to churches.
• 16 of born again Christians gave no money to
  churches.

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