Although the offerings in most American churches have met or exceeded budget requirements in 2011, the economy is still having a negative impact on local congregations.
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Pastors Divided On When To Perform Weddings
American Protestant pastors have widely varying standards for when they will and will not perform wedding ceremonies, according to a new survey by Lifeway Research.
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Protestant Pastors Oppose Homosexual Marriage
More than three-quarters of American Protestant pastors have a strong opposition to homosexual “marriage,” and a majority have strong opposition to civil unions.
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Lifeway Research Unveils Innovative Church Planter Assessment Tool
Ed Stetzer, President of Lifeway Research, unveiled a new online Church Planter Candidate Assessment (CPCA) during the Exponential Conference, a church-planting seminar in Orlando. Fla. Almost 100 church planting leaders attended a separate breakout session on assessment.
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Americans Still Appreciate KJV
Four hundred years after it debuted as the first widely distributed Bible for the English-speaking world, the King James Version of the Bible still holds a place of distinction among Americans, according to a recent study by Lifeway Research.
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Increase In Pastors’ Skepticism About Global Warming
Protestant pastors are more skeptical about global warming today than they were two years ago. That is the finding of a Lifeway Research survey of 1,000 randomly selected Protestant pastors conducted in October 2010.
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