Also, it is not allowed to stabilize since people are continually coming and going. This adversely affects the development of lay leadership and continuity with the church. In addition to these basic areas of information, you can add dozens of topics to meet the particular needs of your church. However, since acting on information is where most churches fall down, it would be well to consider a multi-phase program that would be over a period of time allow you to collect, analyze and digest data in reasonable amounts. Although the needs of the local church are many and varied, I think that Mr. Gallup has identified areas of interest that would provide a pastor and congregation with enough of a challenge so as to keep everyone occupied and focused for years to come.
Some pastors have more than enough to do.
Others are looking for things to do. Maybe research will help us to balance the scales of justice and hard work. Our efforts to build an awareness for utilizing polling and surveys from a need within the church to communicate better. Communication defined as speaking and listening. It is easy in a church to feel as though good preaching is the only form of communication necessary to make the church go forward.