The incidence of participation in a small group or cell group that meets during the week has not changed since first measured in 1993. Blacks are twice as likely as other adults to participate. Adult Sunday school. This is down slightly from the levels of the early Nineties. Volunteering at a church.
Political conservatives are nearly twice as likely as liberals to help at a church.
The annual survey produced some other intriguing results, according to George Barna, president of the company that conducts the survey. In a typical week, about four out of every ten people sitting in the pews of Christian churches are not born again. Although the figures are substantially different in Protestant churches than Catholic churches, more than one-third of the Protestant attenders are not born again. They certainly represent an accessible and fertile mission field for churches that have a desire to introduce people to the notion of salvation by grace. That represents about one out of every ten adults attending a Protestant church and projects to about 5 million of the 53 million adults attending a Protestant church in a typical week.