sastark
Puritan Board Graduate
One of the blogs I follow is GA Junkie and his latest post is about the newest Presbyterian Panel Survey (a survey of the PCUSA). I've only looked at the summary (available here: http://www.pcusa.org/research/panel/snapshot2008.pdf), but there are a few interesting things that jumped out at me. For example:
Pretty amazing stuff, if you ask me!
- The median age of members in the PCUSA is 60. I'm not sure how that compares to denominations like the PCA, but it seems like a very old median age, to me!
- Only 27% of pastors in the PCUSA are female. I would have thought that to be a higher number. But note that 52% of Elders (I assume that means Ruling Elders) are female.
- 46% of PCUSA Members are Republican and 31% Democrat; whereas, 50% of PCUSA Pastors are Democrats and only 23% are Republicans.
- Only 38% of Elders report that they attend worship every week. An additional 48% say "Nearly Every Week".
- Only 17% of Elders say they read their Bible daily or almost daily.
- 82% of Pastors strongly agree or agree with the statement "Jesus will return to the earth one day." That means 18% DON'T agree or aren't sure!
- Only 35% of Pastors agree or strongly agree with the statement "Only followers of Jesus can be saved."
Pretty amazing stuff, if you ask me!