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Title: The Credibility Crisis of Today’s Pastors
Source:
Barma
URL Source: https://www.barna.com/research/credibility-crisis-todays-pastors/
Published: Mar 16, 2017
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2020-04-21 17:15:14 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 1664
Comments: 8
The good news: Most people don’t dislike pastors. The bad news: They just don’t really care about pastors either. In Barna’s The State of Pastors report, produced in partnership with Pepperdine University, the reception of pastors was generally lukewarm. One-quarter of all U.S. adults (24%) holds a very positive opinion of pastors in general. Meanwhile, roughly the same proportion reports a negative opinion (28% “somewhat” + “very” negative). Similarly, one-quarter of the population has little regard for the pastoral influence in their city or neighborhood (23% “not very” + “not at all” influential), while one in five adults (19%) goes so far as to call pastors very influential. (Watch the video below to learn more about public perceptions of pastors.) Yet, two-thirds of adults (66%) feel clergy is of at least some benefit to the public, and when asking people about a pastor with whom they have a personal connection, nearly two-thirds (64%) gives a very positive report. This leaves significant room for pastors to continue to make a positive difference, in spite of the seeming crisis of credibility plaguing their occupation. So what does resilient leadership look like, even in a resistant climate? In the following video, recorded live at The State of Pastors event at Pepperdine University, Adam Edgerly (lead pastor, Newsong Los Angeles Covenant Church), Rebekah Layton (executive pastor, Cherry Hills Community Church) and Mark DeYmaz (directional leader, Mosaic Church) sit down to discuss how pastors can cultivate a credible influence, serve creatively and transform their communities. About the Research This study was conducted on behalf of Pepperdine University. A total of 900 Protestant senior pastors were interviewed by telephone and online from April through December 2015. Pastors were recruited from publicly available church listings covering 90 percent of U.S. churches that have a physical address and a listed phone number or email address. Churches selected for inclusion were called up to five times at different times of the day to increase the probability of successful contact. The sample error for this study is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, at the 95% confidence level. Interviews with U.S. adults included 1,025 web-based surveys conducted among a representative sample of adults over the age of 18 in each of the 50 United States. The survey was conducted in April and May of 2015. The sampling error for this study is plus or minus 3 percentage points, at the 95% confidence level. Minimal statistical weighting was used to calibrate the sample to known population percentages in relation to demographic variables. About Barna Barna research is a private, non-partisan, for-profit organization under the umbrella of the Issachar Companies. Located in Ventura, California, Barna Group has been conducting and analyzing primary research to understand cultural trends related to values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors since 1984.
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Ignore Thread - propaganda site. About Barna Research: It has also served mainstream business and non-profit leaders at organizations like...the Gates Foundation The firm’s studies are frequently cited in sermons and talks, and its public opinion research is often quoted in major media outlets such as CNN, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, and the Los Angeles Times.
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
Tell me about your pastor, Gatlin. The good, the bad, and the ugly...
Promising title and start, but then there's no "there" there. It doesn't discuss what the headline announces. Priests are in a crisis of credibility because of all of the boy rape and cover-up, coming on the heels of five decades of telling married couples that using birth control is a sin, and not letting divorced and remarried people take communion. If you're going to presume to lecture other people about their MARRIED sex lives, then you had damned well be perfect in your celibate one. Otherwise your hypocrisy is like a series of bombs set off at the foundations of the institution you represent. The behavior of priests and the Church regarding them has simply destroyed their moral authority and credibility on sexual matters. It's gone. If they wanted to get it back, there are things they could do, but instead their plow forward AS THOUGH the positions they took regarding married people were right all along, and the issue of priestly pedophilia is just a disciplinary issue. Trouble is, the laity IS NOT BUYING IT, and the laity PAYS to keep the Church alive. So, basically, the Catholic priesthood is now like a cancer that has condemned the Church to death, and the pre-conditioning of Catholics to ignore the Church ANYWAY on marital matters, after forty years of resisting birth control BEFORE the priestly pedophilia scandal broke, left a laity that shrugs its shoulders and does not care so much.
The good, the bad, and the ugly... Yes. I'd also be interested.
The firm’s studies are frequently cited in sermons and talks, and its public opinion research is often quoted in major media outlets such as CNN, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, and the Los Angeles Times. HA! Barna Research: BUSTED. Terrible propaganda. Gatlin, why bother?
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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#5. To: Gatlin (#0)
So what does resilient leadership look like
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Tell me about your pastor, Gatlin.
#8. To: Deckard Gatlin, Vicomte13, Watchman, ALL (#1)
About Barna Research: It has also served mainstream business and non-profit leaders at organizations like...the Gates Foundation
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