Faith Revolutionaries Stand Out From the Crowd is a piece at the Barna Group website I found linked today at Presbyweb. It is an update and expansion on the information he published in his book Revolution. Interesting stuff!
Faith Revolutionaries Stand Out From the Crowd
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3 responses to “Faith Revolutionaries Stand Out From the Crowd”
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Very interesting study.
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Interesting indeed. I ordered the book. I wonder if separating believers into revolutionaries and all the rest is a false dichotomy. At first glance it seems that the revolutionary is nothing but a believer that has progressed further than some others in spiritual maturity. Is this really much of a revelation?
Anyway, I’ll read the book. Thanks for pointing it out. -
I agree that categories run the risk of over simplifying yet as a sociolgist/demographer I think it is possible to aggregate people exhibit shared behavior and motivations. Barna often overstates the coherence of some of his typologies but I think his general themes and dynamics are valid, at least in this analysis.
“a believer that has progressed further than some others”
Interesting that you should make this observation. Another book, “A Churchless Faith,” revealed that a sizeable majority of these people Barna calls “Revolutionaries” were not marginal pew warmers. The easy majority were former elders, sunday school teachers, and congregational leaders. It is almost as if they “out grew” what we traditionally think of as church.
I’ll be interested to see what you think of the book.
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