Alternative Church: In A Typical Week, 22% Of ...

Alternative Church: In a typical week, 22% of American adults engage in spiritual encounters outside the traditional church, 9% participate in a house church while more than 10% turn to the Internet as their foundation for interactive faith experience (Most in tandem with another form). Revolution, a new George Barna book, claims •Baby Boomers are largely responsible for mega churches redefining the church landscape during the past 25 years. •Adults involved in a marketplace ministry are twice as likely as those connected only to a congregational church to have a biblical worldview, twice as likely to identify the Bible as the source of truth, and a third more likely to contend absolute moral truth exists. •About 66% of all adults engaged in a house church attend weekly, with the remainder attending at least monthly. •The Midwest is the stronghold for congregational church connections, while the southern states are the most fertile for marketplace ministry involvement. •Evangelicals are those most likely to get involved in an alternative form of the church – and the group most likely to participate in both a traditional and alternative church. •Adults with below-average levels of education and income are twice as likely as upscale individuals to be active in an alternative church form. (Barna Update 10/24/05)

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