Active Christians 19%
--Believe salvation comes through Jesus Christ
--Committed churchgoers
--Bible readers
--Accept leadership positions
--Invest in personal faith development through the church
--Feel obligated to share faith; 79% do so.
Professing Christians 20%
--Believe salvation comes through Jesus Christ
--Focus on personal relationship with God and Jesus
--Similar beliefs to Active Christians, different actions
--Less involved in church, both attending and serving
--Less commitment to Bible reading or sharing faith
Liturgical Christians 16%
--Predominantly Catholic and Lutheran
--Regular churchgoers
--High level of spiritual activity, mostly expressed by serving in church and/or community
--Recognize authority of the church
Private Christians 24%
--Largest and youngest segment
--Believe in God and doing good things
--Own a Bible, but don’t read it
--Spiritual interest, but not within church context
--Only about a third attend church at all
--Almost none are church leaders
Cultural Christians 21%
--Little outward religious behavior or attitudes
--God aware, but little personal involvement with God
--Do not view Jesus as essential to salvation
--Affirm many ways to God
--Favor universality theology
2 comments:
I'll go first. I most often find myself in the "active" category, which is a good thing. But the truth is when it comes to Bible reading and sharing my faith, if I'm not highly intentional about it, I fall into the "professing" range. Those tend to be my personal challenges.
I think I used to be a private christian who still looked for opportunities to discuss my faith with others. I would have been active in church but I didn't really have a church. Once I found community christian I think I quickly started leaning towards being an active christian. I'd like to think a lot more people would be active christians if they were able to find a church that they were really inspired by.
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