(True or False ) I will take the church reality test

True or False – Answer the following Questions based on your true or false answer.
This is a Quiz I came up with to test our current knowledge on the current photo of the Bride.
I’ll post the True Answers in a couple weeks. I hope you will really try to answer these.
You may be the one God uses to bring back the bride to himself.

(True or False) 85% of church plants don’t succeed beyond their first year.
Why do you think so many church plants fail and what would you do to see more success?
Or why do you believe so many church plants are succeeding?

(True or False) 85 % of North American churches are stagnant or declining 3,500-4,000 U.S. churches close each year.
What’s your game plan to turn that number around?
Or what are churches doing so right to see numerical and spiritual growth?

(True or False) Of the 15 % of churches growing, 14 percent are growing from transfer growth.
Why do you think that is and what would you do personally to change that number locally?
Or Why do you believe there is not evidence to such numbers?

(True or False) Over 95% of church splits fail.
Why do you think that number is so high? What would you do to stimulate church health?
Or if you disagree explain why you would encourage a church split. Can you support 1 family leaving a church is like a mini split to prove a larger spit?
What issue would justify a macro or mini split?

(True or False) Less than 10% of the people who are in the church tithe to their local church.
Why do you think more or less people are tithing? Is giving tithes and offerings a biblical concept?
Do you tithe to your local church? Why or why not?

How would you encourage others to tithe?

(True or False) The average church attender, over 65% have never invited anyone to church.

How many people do you invite to church every week? Is it your responsibility to invite people?

Or if you disagree, share why you believe there are others like your self inviting people they just don’t come because they don’t like your church or some other reason.

(True or False) The percentage of people who identified themselves as having no religion has almost doubled since 1990, from 8.2 % of the population to 15 % today.
Why do you think that number has grown so quickly?
Do you see it getting better or worse in 10 yrs?
Or why is that number exaggerated and why do you feel that way?

(True or False) More than 20 % of the population has no overt religious identity. Statistics suggest we will be an irreligious country by 2022.
Would you say you are A) actively contributing to an irreligious nation B) Don’t care C) Working very actively to promote biblical literacy in my own life and by teaching others D) Neutral
Or explain why you see this country being more Christian by 2022.

(True or False) 1,700 pastors resign each month from churches.
Do you believe this number is true?
Why or why not?

(True or False) 1,300 pastors are let go each month most often for no reason and no warning.
Why do you think this is the case?
Or do you think such numbers are justified because democratic choices are always better for a church?

(True or False) 3,500 people leave church every day.
Why or why not is this number so large?
How can we reduce the numbers of people leaving every day?
What are you willing to do?
Have you considered leaving the church?

(True or False) Four out of ten Christians (40%) strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” An additional two out of ten Christians (19%) said they “agree somewhat” with that perspective.
Do you believe Satan is real?
Support your answer?

(True or False) Tens of millions of Christians do not accept the divinity and perfection of Jesus Christ.
What evidence do you have that proves or disproves Christ’s divinity?

Does it matter?
(True or False) Most Christians do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force.
Does it matter whether the Holy Spirit is real or not?

(True or False) A majority of Christians believe that a person can be under the influence of spiritual forces, such as demons or evil spirits.
Can a Christian be under the control of an evil spirit?
Why or why not?
(True or False) Among all Americans 18 years of age or older, whether they have been married or not at least 25% have gone through a marital split.

Is divorce affecting the church in a negative way?

Is the church influencing marital divorce?
Is divorce affecting church disloyalty?

(True or False) 33% of Christian marriages end in divorce and 33% of Non-Christian end in divorce.

Why do you think there is no difference between the two groups?

What’s your suggestion to improve marriages and reduce the divorce rate beginning with Christians?

(True or False) Just 29% of professing Christians strongly endorse sharing their faith.
Would you say you regularly share your faith? Define regularly…
How many people have you led to Christ?
How many people have you baptized yourself?

(True or False) Levels of distrust toward churches continue to increase. Distrust toward Church leaders and organized Christianity have been growing over the past two decades leading 71% of Americans to say they are “more likely to develop my religious beliefs on my own, rather than to accept an entire set of beliefs that a particular church teaches.”
Why do you think such distrust is growing? Do you trust church leadership?

(True or False) Two out of five church attenders were not able to identify how their church defines spiritual maturity.
Would you say it matters or doesn’t matter?
How would you define Spiritual maturity?
How does your church define it?

(True or False) A majority of Pastors are surprisingly vague about the biblical references they use to chart spiritual maturity for people.
What verses, Bible stories, books of the Bible has your pastor related to biblical maturity and literacy?

(True or False) 8,000 SBC churches in the U.S. baptized no one last year in 2009.
How many people has your church baptized in the last year?
How many have accepted Christ through your church in the last year?
Do you think this number is accurate and growing?
What would you do to dramatically change this number in a positive direction?