New research from The Barna Group has identified five distinct segments in how Americans participate in faith communities. Here is a quick profile for each of the five:
- Unattached - 23% of American adults
This group has no personal interaction with a regularly-convened faith community, but they do use religious media. They do not attend conventional churches or organic faith communities, such as a house churches.
>> 1 in 3 have never attended a church
>> 59% consider themselves to be Christian
>> 17% are born again Christians
>> More likely to be single, male, and divorced at some point. - Intermittents (the under-churched) - 15% of American adults
This group has participated in either a conventional church or an organic faith community within the past year but not within the past month.
>> 2 in 3 have attended a church event within the past six months - Homebodies - 3% of American adults
This group has attended a house church within the last month but not a conventional church. - Blenders - 3% of American adults
This group has attended both a conventional church and a house church within the last month. - Conventionals - 56% of American adults
This group has attended a conventional church event or service within the last month but not a house church.
For more insights , read The Barna Group’s original report.
Interesting stuff… Thanks for the post.
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ok… I am a stats junkie and I love the stuff that Barna puts out… but help me understand this…
We have heard for years, that the postmoderns… or mosaics… or whatever other group has no or very little church background/ worldview or whatever of the like. Where do they fall into this category if 56% of American adults are conventionals… or attended church at least once in the last month.
Is this a contradiction? Help me to understand this.