{"id":27246,"date":"2014-09-13T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=27246"},"modified":"2014-09-13T23:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T04:27:05","slug":"insights-from-the-recent-national-congregations-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/insights-from-the-recent-national-congregations-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights from the recent National Congregations Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.duke.edu\/natcong\/Docs\/NCSII_report_final.pdf\">National Congregations Study<\/a> holds some interesting insights about worship life in U.S. congregations. \u00a0In fact, there is a category &#8220;worship&#8221; in the study. \u00a0Some of the highlights: \u00a0Greater informality is creeping in (e.g., in dress, prayer styles, and behavior patterns) as the wider culture is growing more informal. 56% of Americans worship in congregations were organs are played, down from 70% in the last study in 2006-07. Behaviors associated with evangelical worship styles are on the rise (e.g., hands raised in prayer and praise). \u00a0Choirs are down. \u00a0Congregational leadership is still overwhelmingly male; only about 5% of worshipers are in congregations led by women. Attitudes toward LGBT persons are shifting slowly, and unevenly.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more intriguing insights, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.duke.edu\/natcong\/Docs\/NCSII_report_final.pdf\">so go and read<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report of the National Congregations Study holds some interesting insights about worship life in U.S. congregations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demographics-and-sociology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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