Weekly churchgoers are statistically more likely to embrace biblical views than those who don’t regularly attend church services, according to just-released data.
Lifeway Research surveyed 3,001 Protestant churchgoers in the U.S. from Jan. 6-15, 2025, asking respondents — both frequent and infrequent service attenders — whether they agreed with a series of statements that either aligned with or contradicted Christian teachings.
Infrequent churchgoers were defined as those who attend services once or twice a month, while frequent churchgoers were defined as those who attend services on a weekly basis.
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Of those surveyed, 61% of frequent churchgoers said they strongly disagreed with the claim “Jesus was a great teacher, but he was not God,” compared to just 37% of infrequent attenders. And 85% of frequent churchgoers said the “biblical accounts of the physical (bodily) resurrection of Jesus are completely accurate” and the “event actually occurred,” while only 64% of infrequent attenders said the same.
“This relationship between lack of attendance and theological positions should sound an alarm among church leaders and dedicated Christians,” Daniel Price, a Lifeway statistician, said in a statement. “Increasing attendance alone will not guarantee an improvement in the acceptance of theological positions.”
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