Those of you who live in the UK will just have completed your Census for 2011. Within the census it asks the religion of each individual who lives in the house, and this has been playing on my mind ever since I filled in our census form and my Mum and Dad’s census form.
For a few days, it’s bugged me why I kept thinking about this question, but then it came to me…
- Of all the people included in the responses to the census forms, I wonder how many of them specified they have a particular religious denomination?
- And of those who specified they have a religion, how many of them actually regularly attend a place of worship?
I think the reason for this being on my mind are that I suspect many people who never attend a place of worship will have indicated they are of a specific religious denomination, and that bothers me!
Why do people still consider themselves to be of a particular religion but don’t attend a place of worship? How does that equate?
So in closing, some questions for you:
- What can we do to get these people to come back to our churches or places of worship?
- What has made them stop coming?
- Why do they still consider themselves religious, despite not regularly attending a place of worship?
Sorry more questions than answers today, but as it’s been on my mind for a few days now, I wanted to share my thoughts with you all.
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