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STATE OF THE CHURCH

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0:00.0	The Art of Leadership Network.
0:03.0	Well, welcome to the Keri Newhoff Leadership Podcast.
0:05.2	Hey, before we dive into today's episode, we are going to do one of the monthly updates
0:10.9	that I'm doing this year with David Kinneman, the CEO of the Barna Group, State of the Church.
0:16.4	David, we're getting fresh data every single month.
0:19.0	So just a quick update on what you're working on right now.
0:22.1	So tell us, you are asking the question that the Barner Group has asked for years, but you have a new twist on it this time around.
0:29.2	We do, yeah. So we have some really, really good news to prepare for you today to talk to you about.
0:35.3	And it is the percentage of Americans who say they have
0:38.0	made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today. And
0:43.4	that's something we've been tracking for many decades. What we find is that it reached a high point
0:50.3	of 77% back in 2009 around the time of the mortgage crisis, as it happens to be.
0:58.7	Yeah, when things were really bad economically, everyone believed in Jesus. Sorry, is that a cynical
1:03.0	take? Maybe, maybe, maybe not. No, but bad times in the economy are good times for churches,
1:07.1	right? As a rule. Yeah, I think when things are tough, whether it's 9-11 or the pandemic
1:12.0	or other things, there's a sense in which people turn to places of deeper meaning. And what we're
1:18.7	finding now, so this is some of the best news that we have been able to release in years, but there
1:24.6	is real signs of renewal across our society. And currently, it is at 66%
1:31.2	of Americans who say they've made a personal commitment to Christ that's still important in their
1:35.5	life. Now, you'll note that is lower than it was when I just mentioned at 77% back in 2009. And
1:41.3	it was in the 70s for a lot of, sort of from 2004 and 2005 through, it looks about
1:49.6	2011. But during the pandemic, in 2021, and sort of like even 2019, it was down into the 50s,
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