In the spirit of Newman reception-focused reflection is a matter of consulting the faithful. These circumstances significantly include the fact that our religious tradition is sectarian in its roots and relied from the beginning so heavily on the individual's reading of the then so recently available printed Bible. It is finally less significant that Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists and Anglicans are sociologically described as churches than that they and all other religious groups in America must function as voluntary associations of individuals in a pursuit of meaning in their lives. That agenda is the source of vitality in American religious experience. This, I suggest, does not call for opinion polls.
Pollsters ask people to react to someone else's agenda.
It is not an issue people spontaneously think about. A better gauge of their appreciation of ministry is found when they spontaneously collaborate with whomever they find making Christ present in their own lives and the lives of others. The record and even the current scene are not terribly different from that of the rest of the church universal. But remember, this is a perfectionist culture of which we speak. In the clash of viewpoints and agendas it will very likely always produce dissenters insistently calling for reform and renewal.