{"id":32204,"date":"2022-09-10T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/are-american-churches-growing\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:00:31","slug":"are-american-churches-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/are-american-churches-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Are American Churches Growing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  <\/div>\n<p>According to a Lifeway Research survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors sponsored by Exponential:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size:21px\">\n<li>21 percent of churches have fewer than 50 people attending Sunday services<\/li>\n<li>35 percent of churches have 50 to 99 people attending Sunday services<\/li>\n<li>32 percent of churches have 100 to 249 people attending Sunday services<\/li>\n<li>11 percent of churches have 250 or more people attending Sunday services<\/li>\n<li>6 in 10 churches are plateaued or declining in attendance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on the state of American churches, read the full story from Lifeway Research.<\/p>\n<p><em>Exponential\u2019s FREE online assessment to discover your church\u2019s Level 1 through 5 behavior is available at&nbsp;http:\/\/church-multiplication.com\/multiplicationculture\/.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#333333;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px\">Dig Deeper at Lifeway.com<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"one-third first\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"two-thirds\">\n<h3>There&#8217;s Hope for Your Church: First Steps to Restoring Health and Growth<\/h3>\n<p>Gary L. McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>  FIND OUT MORE <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  The New Front Door to Your Church  Are Online Church Services Here to Stay?  The Group Most Likely to Still Be Missing From Your Church  22 Vital Stats for Ministry in 2022 <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Lifeway Research survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors sponsored by Exponential: 21 percent of churches have fewer than 50 people attending Sunday services 35 percent of churches have 50 to 99 people attending Sunday services 32 percent of churches have 100 to 249 people attending Sunday services 11 percent of churches have 250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/are-american-churches-growing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are American Churches Growing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}