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Bible Minded Cities

2/2/2013

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The Barna Group has just published a new study ranking the major US cities on how they view the Bible. According to the Barna Group: 

The report ranks the most and least “Bible-minded” cities by looking at how people in those cities view the Bible. The study is based on 42,855 interviews conducted nationwide and the analysis of Bible trends was commissioned by American Bible Society. Individuals who report reading the Bible in a typical week and who strongly assert the Bible is accurate in the principles it teaches are considered to be Bible-minded. This definition captures action and attitude—those who both engage and esteem the Christian scriptures. The rankings thus reflect an overall openness or resistance to the Bible in the country’s largest markets.

While there are probably no big surprises (the Northeast ranks lowest), I think the study gives us good food for thought as we think about church planting, discipleship, etc.

Here is the link for a summary of the study:
http://cities.barna.org/americas-most-and-least-bible-minded-cities-2/


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    Mark Shaeffer is pastor of Grace Covenant Church. He and his wife, Lynn, have been married for 27 years and are delighted to be the parents of 13 awesome children (no, the 13 is not a typo). When he is not reading, studying, preaching or helping with Algebra, Mark enjoys hiking and backyard football with his family, folk and early music, and all things historical.
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