Video | Adventist News
1 March 2008
Video | Adventist News
Adventists often stay Adventist, Pew survey shows, with good analysis by Monte Sahlin, a church growth specialist and director of research for the Ohio Conference, found positive news in the Pew study, as well as items of concern.
This study finds the Seventh-day Adventist share of the population at 0.4 percent and the last major study of this kind [the American Religious Identification Survey in 2001] found it to be 0.3 percent then. Over the past seven years, the Adventist Church in the U.S. has increased its share of the population by one third," Sahlin noted.
However, he added, the "potential bad news is the clear evidence of a dropout problem. The 2001 ARIS study found that 73 percent of those reared in the Adventist Church stayed in and that has dropped to 60 percent. The tendency of new generations of Adventists to not bond with our denomination is accelerating.
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Once again we have a survey who's main concern is the Adventist "numbers game". Its like reading Adventist World all over again.
Only in the Adventist Church does a 0.1% change in membership make the headlines.
Of concern of course is "the potential bad news of the clear evidence of a dropout problem".
I suspect as Adventists become further educated as to how their doctrines differ from Scriptural Christianity, this dropout number will continue to increase.
As one who dropped out of Adventism, to join the Greater Body of Christ, I can see this trend, only as the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Many of the 40% raised in Adventism who are now leaving, do so for the unadulterated pure Gospel of Christ alone, without the baggage of the Adventist paradigm.
Randy
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