80% of Protestant churchgoers want pastors to address hot topics: survey

Four out of five Protestant churchgoers in the United States believe pastors should address current issues, according to a new report.

According to a Lifeway report released Tuesday, 80% of Protestants “believe a pastor must address current issues to be doing their job,” while 16% don't and 4% are unsure.

Some 62% of respondents said their pastor addressed current issues either “every week” or “almost every week,” while 23% said they spoke about them “at least once a month,” and 12% said they spoke about them “rarely” or “several times a year.”

Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, was quoted in the report as saying that, as the “culture increasingly includes fewer overtly Christian elements and more non-Christian ideas, churchgoers are hungry to know what the Bible says about life’s issues.”

“Churchgoers notice that most pastors are not just preaching from the Bible as a historical document,” stated McConnell. “Pastors seek to explain the original meaning and context, but then apply those principles to issues and situations today. Such application of the biblical text helps churchgoers recognize its relevance.”

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80% of Protestant churchgoers want pastors to address hot topics: survey

Four out of five Protestant churchgoers in the United States believe pastors should address current issues, according to a new report

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[1LoverofGod]

Pastor Brandon Holthous was a guest on Maranatha Prophecy Update with Pastor Curt Reed this week and they had a brief discussion on this survey. Pastor Brandon pointed out that the reason many Pastors won't address current issues is because they have become more concerned with filling the pews and not hurting feelings because today's Culture and the anti Israel sentiment is off topic to them because it's more important to not offend anyone and lose numbers so they avoid current issues. He pointed out the Laodecean church of Revelation 3, this is where we are as some of the church has become Apostate and silent on preaching on sin and repentance.
This is very sad because those Pastors will be held accountable.

"My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment"
James 3:1

 

[Margery]

Doesn't say which direction they want to go with the current issues though in that survey. Just that they wanted pastors to address them.

Judging by the widow gang at the mall - Baptist flavour for the most part. It might mean they want the pastors to come out and support their kids/grandkids who have gone all rainbow coloured. Or preach on drug use and how it's affected the generations in families and the Christian response to same. And they might not want the pastors to preach on young earth creationism's support in the Bible or on prophecy or the Rapture.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Doesn't say which direction they want to go with the current issues though in that survey. Just that they wanted pastors to address them.

Judging by the widow gang at the mall - Baptist flavour for the most part. It might mean they want the pastors to come out and support their kids/grandkids who have gone all rainbow coloured. Or preach on drug use and how it's affected the generations in families and the Christian response to same. And they might not want the pastors to preach on young earth creationism's support in the Bible or on prophecy or the Rapture.

True. We don't know who these "Protestant Christians" are that participated in the survey. There are many church splits that have occurred over the past few years over theology and over ideologies but both sides consider themselves Protestant Christian. It's hard to know what is meant and what's on the minds of the participants for them to respond as they do.