All Talk, No Action

I must admit, i'm a bit of a fan of the Barna Group. They do a bunch of research that helps us know what's actually going on. And of course, i loved their book unChristian. Most recently, they did a study on change.


The summarisation of the research was that despite:

lots of time discussing and debating religious beliefs and spiritual practices, ... all of that interaction has translated into very little change in people’s faith life.

What little change there was (only 7% could think of any change in the past five years) most of it related to what people did within the confines of church, and not so much with the integration of faith into everyday life.

Also, as i've kind of talked about before, the study suggests that much of the time spent in reflection and conversation is about "deriving a greater sense of comfort and support from their religious beliefs" rather than being challenged by them.

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds

-Hebrews 10:24